An old map of paris, france. Engraved outlined hand color detailed plan of paris. Includes an ornamental cartouche, street names, buildings, churches, bridges, parks, lists of public places and alphabetical list of streets. Atlas containing 51 maps; 49 folded leaves with 2 two preliminary maps inserted from other copies, 6 maps inserted at the end, table of contents and text. This is the folio version of lattre's smaller atlas, see our 2612. 000. Maps are hand-color in outline, many with additional original hand-color in part, with title cartouche, dated between 1759-1784, one map date 1816 later added to the atlas. Maps are made by de l'isle, buache, janvier, rizzi zannoni, st. Angelo, bonne, jaillot, robert de vaugondy, and lattre. Showing political and administrative boundaries, rivers, place names, canals, fortifications, forests, lakes, etc. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Bound in brown marbled half leather covers with title "atlas geogra" in gilt on spine. Lattre's dedication of the map to benjamin franklin, who as american ambassador to france, represented the united states at the peace negotiations. Date: 1778. Jean Lattre, Plan routier de la ville et faubourg de Paris 1778, 1778 - David Rumsey
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