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Description de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly, de Meudon, de Saint Cloud, de Fontainebleau, et de toutes les autres belles Maisons et Ch‰teaux des environs de Paris by [PIGANIOL DE LA FORCE, Jean-Aymar]
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Book desription: Paris: Chez la Veuve Delaulne, 1730. An early edition of this indispensable guide book. Complete in eight twelvemo volumes. Title pages printed in red and black, Engraved frontispiece in first volume, Illustrated throughout with sixty-three fold-out maps and full page plates of important destinations. Contemporary French calf, spines densely gilt in compartments and with burgundy gilt morocco labels, marbled endpapers, edges stained red. In volume V the contents of pp. 39/40 have been deliberately excised leaving only the margin. A few splits along the top and bottom of joints but overall a very good and sturdy copy. No copies of this particular edition located by OCLC. As Paris was the predominant urban destination of the eighteenth century guidebooks were important and necessary. Piagnols guidebook, one of the best, is in a handy form for travellers, with specific directions, route maps, and distances for 28 different journeys from Paris to the French borders. Volumes contain: I. Histoire de Paris. Son gouvernement ecclŽsiastique, civil et militaire. Description du quartier de la citŽ ; II. Quartiers de Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie, de Sainte-Oportune, du Louvre, du Palais-Royal et de Montmartre ; III. Quartiers de S.-Eustache, des Halles, de S.-Denys, de S.-Martin et de la Grve ; IV. Quartiers de Saint-Paul, de Sainte-Avoye, du Temple, de Saint-Antoine et de la place Maubert ; V. Quartier de Saint-Benoit et partie de celui de Saint-AndrŽ ; VI. L'autre partie du quartier de Saint-AndrŽ et celui du Luxembourg ; VII. Quartier de Saint-Germain des PrŽs ; VIII. Environs de Paris
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