Lot 43 | [Map, Travels] Paris Map, 1845

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[Map, Travels] Paris Map, 1845

Folded map of Paris with main monuments ad list of streets

Vuillemin, Alexandre. Nouveau plan illustré de la ville de Paris : avec le systeme complet de ses fortifications et forts detaches, et des communes de la banlieue. Paris : Fatout, 1844.

1 map, steel engraving ; sheet 85 x 107 cm, folded in cover to 22 x 13 cm

Splendid work on glossy paper retracing the Very large map of Paris, engraved on steel by Benard, adorned with around fifty vignettes depicting monuments, bridges or squares in Paris and its suburbs, and the 13 forts around Paris (Charenton, Nogent, Ivry, Bicetre, Montrouge, etc.). With alphabetical list of streets, table of towns in the suburbs, distances between forts and the "granting wall" or Farmers General barrier.

The plan shows the two surrounding walls of the city, the wall of the General Farmers, built in 1790, and the bastioned wall of Thiers.