FAMOUS MAP OF PARIS - "PLAN DE TURGOT". TURGOT, MICHEL-ETIENNE. Plan de Paris. Commencé l'Année 1734. Achevé de graver en 1739. (Paris 1739). Engraved plan and 20 engraved sheets with ornamental bordure and decorative cartouche. About 570 x 460 for each sheet, whole map would in total become 2500 x 3200. Engraved by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez by order of Turgot, then mayor of Paris. Only slight foxing and some minor marginal tears, a few dampstains to margins. Contemporary full calf, partly somewhat worn, gilt spine with gilt title label, lower part with small damage. Photo. Berliner Ornamentstichkatalog, 2506. The rare first edition of one of the most famous plans of baroque Paris. Here sheet number 18-19 joined together.
FAMOUS MAP OF PARIS - "PLAN DE TURGOT". TURGOT, MICHEL-ETIENNE. Plan de Paris. Commencé l'Année 1734. Achevé de graver en 1739. (Paris 1739). Engraved plan and 20 engraved sheets with ornamental bordure and decorative cartouche. About 570 x 460 for each sheet, whole map would in total become 2500 x 3200. Engraved by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez by order of Turgot, then mayor of Paris. Only slight foxing and some minor marginal tears, a few dampstains to margins. Contemporary full calf, partly somewhat worn, gilt spine with gilt title label, lower part with small damage. Photo. Berliner Ornamentstichkatalog, 2506. The rare first edition of one of the most famous plans of baroque Paris. Here sheet number 18-19 joined together.
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