Delagrive Map Paris Environs (1 results)
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Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
Contact seller4-star sellerVery good. Size 20 x 24 Inches. This is the scarce 1739 Homann Heirs edition of the seminal Jean Delagrive map of Paris, France, and its environs. It illustrates Paris under the reign of King Louis XV, at its peak as a center of Enlightenment thought, with Parisian intellectuals, philosophers, and artists shaping the cultural an…d political discourse of Europe. A Closer Look Centered on Île de la Cité, coverage embraces what is today greater Paris, extending from the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes and from Clichy (Clichy) to Gentil. The Seine winds laterally through the center of the map. Within Paris, streets are illustrated, if not named, and a numerical system, corresponding to a table at top center, names 63 significant locations. Sources The map is sourced from the 1730 central sheet of Delagrive's 9-section map of Paris and environs, Environs de Paris, leves geometriquement (Rumsey 10255.000), a landmark production measuring 178 x 252 cm, considered the definitive map of the environs of Paris of its age (first published as a full set of 9 sheets in 1740). This great map is comparable in significance and size to the epic 1739 Turgot/Bretez map of Paris, on which Delagrive collaborated as Official Geographer. The central sheet for Delagrive's great map was published in 1730, a full 10 years before the remaining 8 sheets were engraved and published. Publication History and Census This map was designed by Jean Delagrive in 1730 and published by Homan Heirs in 1739. Like many Homann maps, this was a separate issue and not included in any standard atlas; instead, it was sold separately and included in some deluxe and composite atlases. It is thus rare to the market if well represented institutionally. References: OCLC 1224520568. c.f. Rumsey 10255.000. Vallee, Leon, Catalogue des plans de Paris et des cartes de l'ile de France, (Bibliotheque Nacionale), #841.
