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Author: Bonnisel, J.
Title: Plan de la Ville et Faubourgs de Paris avec ses Monuments…
Place Published: Paris
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Date Published: 1814
Description:

Engraved plan, hand-colored, surrounded by engravings of scenes and monuments. 92.2x117.6 cm (36¼x43¼") including the surrounding scenes and monuments, framed under plexiglass.

Marvelously detailed engraved plan of Paris as it was at the time between Napoleon's first banishment and his final exile to St. Helena. Bordering the map are elegant engravings of twenty-nine of the cities great monuments. It provides a detailed key naming streets, bridges, arrondissements, cemeteries and even slaughterhouses, locating them on the map using a coordinate system. This was issued as a folding map, and the folds are still evident. The coloring seems old, perhaps original.

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An exceptionally nice, clean, bright example, not examined out of frame but not laid down.