Traité des mesures itinéraires anciennes et modernes.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1769

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In-8: vi-195 pp. (sl. fox.).

Sewn (wr. fragile, spine missing). Good untrimmed copy.

1st edition of this treatise by the French cartographer and "premier géographe du roi" J.-B. d'Anville (1697-1782). Interesting work allowing to know all the ancient distance measurements and their corrrespondence: "le pied", "la coudée", "la lieue gauloise", "le mille romain", etc. Ref. Conlon 69:502 (= BL, BN, NUC). Prov. Stamps on verso of title.

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