Description:
Paris. L'Abee Jean Delagrive (1689-1757) Environs de Paris, leves geometriquement. Paris, 1740.
Nine separate sections, 33 3/4 x 25 in. each, copper-plate engravings, uncolored, in nine frames, mounted on the wall, approximately 9 feet wide by 7 feet high.
This group of maps was published in an atlas by the same title, and is the first to give detailed and accurate representations of all of the small villages, farms, buildings, parks, roads, and fields around Paris. (9)
Estimate $2,000-3,000
Each panel of the map is mounted on foamcore.
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