TURGOT, Michel Etienne and Louis BRETEZ Plan de Paris commencé l'Année 1734 ... sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot ... Achevé de Graver en 1739 . Paris: 1739. 2° (555 x 440mm). Engraved throughout, folding index map and plan of Paris on 20 sheets by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez sheets 18 and 19 joined. Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with double-fillet and roll tools border, fleur-de-lys cornerpieces with the centrally-placed arms of the city of Paris, spine in ten compartments with raised bands, brown morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeat pattern of fleur-de-lys and star tools, gilt edges. Provenance : George Hay 12th Earl of Kinnoull (1827-1897, armorial bookplate); Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925). A FINE COPY OF A CARTOGRAPHICAL TOUR-DE-FORCE: the 20 sheets form a single enormous plan (approximately 2.5 x 3.2metres). This takes the form of a bird's-eye-view with a decorative border and exhibits enough detail to still be of use to researchers into the pre-Haussman architectural history of Paris. A former owner, Sir George Donaldson, was the leading British dealer of his generation and a voracious collector. The National Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal College of Music all benefitted from his donations. For himself he created a private museum which was dispersed at a five day sale in 1925. The present work was in his library and was a present to his daughter and thence by descent to the present owner.
TURGOT, Michel Etienne and Louis BRETEZ Plan de Paris commencé l'Année 1734 ... sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot ... Achevé de Graver en 1739 . Paris: 1739. 2° (555 x 440mm). Engraved throughout, folding index map and plan of Paris on 20 sheets by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez sheets 18 and 19 joined. Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with double-fillet and roll tools border, fleur-de-lys cornerpieces with the centrally-placed arms of the city of Paris, spine in ten compartments with raised bands, brown morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeat pattern of fleur-de-lys and star tools, gilt edges. Provenance : George Hay 12th Earl of Kinnoull (1827-1897, armorial bookplate); Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925). A FINE COPY OF A CARTOGRAPHICAL TOUR-DE-FORCE: the 20 sheets form a single enormous plan (approximately 2.5 x 3.2metres). This takes the form of a bird's-eye-view with a decorative border and exhibits enough detail to still be of use to researchers into the pre-Haussman architectural history of Paris. A former owner, Sir George Donaldson, was the leading British dealer of his generation and a voracious collector. The National Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal College of Music all benefitted from his donations. For himself he created a private museum which was dispersed at a five day sale in 1925. The present work was in his library and was a present to his daughter and thence by descent to the present owner.
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