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Auction 162, Lot 487

Stunning Oversized Plan of Paris

"Le Plan de Paris, Ses Faubourgs et Ses Environs / Platte Grond van Parys, zyn Voorburgen en Omleggende Plaatse", Delisle/Covens & Mortier

Subject: Paris, France

Period: 1730 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
29.5 x 22.1 inches
74.9 x 56.1 cm
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This large-scale plan of Paris also depicts its surrounding faubourgs and environs, and is based on the work of Nicolas de Fer. A lettered key names and locates 23 important buildings. Streets, churches, palaces, gardens, boat yards, orchards, hotels and much more are depicted on this superb plan. This fully engraved and handsome chart is further embellished with a large city coat of arms, a very nice compass rose, and four distance scales. Title above map is in both French and Dutch. Printed on two sheets, joined.

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Condition: A

A crisp impression on a clean, bright sheet with excellent margins. Issued folding, now flattened with professional repairs to several very short separations along the folds. There is one short, unrepaired fold separation in the bottom blank margin and some creasing along the edges of the sheet.

Estimate: $2,750 - $3,500

Sold for: $1,800

Closed on 4/26/2017

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