Live veiling - Lot 560
[France]
Le conducteur français, contenant les routes desservies par les nouvelles diligences, messageries & autres voitures publiques [...]. Enrichi de cartes topographiques, dont les routes sont distinguées par une couleur [...]. Par L. Denis géographe.
Paris, Ribou [- Sorin; successors of Julien], 1777 [- 1779]
Hamerprijs: €
1.400
€ 600 / 800
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Beschrijving lot
7 vol., 8vo: 37 instalments; 39 maps (occ. spotting, few bl. marg. of maps sl. soiled).
Contemp. quater mottled sheep, paper boards, gilt-orn. flat spines, red edges (heads of vol. 1-3 and 7 missing, spines rubbed, corners sl. bumped).
Large part of this curious work that appeared in installments (1776-1780), containing detailed descriptions of numerous routes in France between major cities. With 39 large, folding maps by Louis Denis (1725-1794), French geographer, with the main roads and cities hand-coloured.
Ref. Tooley's Dictionary I:358. - Fordham, Les routes de France, p. 26.