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Lot 218
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$2,000 -
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$2,560
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[MAPS & ATLASES]. BRETEZ, Louis (d. 1737). Plan de Paris, commence l'annee 1734, dessine et grave sous les ordres de Messire Michel Turgot. Paris: N.p., n.d., [ca 1880].
Elephant folio (711 x 533 mm). 21 double-page engraved maps. (Some marginal spotting, dampstaining to upper margins of first few maps.) Contemporary brown cloth, red calf lettering-piece gilt, uncut (upper cover dampstained near top edge, affecting endpapers). Provenance: unidentified bookplate).
A full-scale re-strike of the original plates from Turgot's mammoth 1739 birds-eye view Paris.