DENIS, LOUIS. Itinraire historique et topographique des grandes routes de France. Paris: chez l'auteur; Pasquier, 1768. Engraved throughout: figurative title, showing a carriage en route, 62 hand-colored strip road maps, printed on versos, descriptive text for the maps on facing rectos, folding hand-colored engraved map of the Route de France, descriptive text of the route de France and alphabetical index of towns, 2-page list of booksellers in various French towns. 32mo, contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt, repairs to head and tail of spine, some mostly marginal browning . -- [Another edition], 1771. 32mo, modern cloth, imperfect, lacking several leaves . Denis's miniature road book may have been the inspiration for Desnos's small-format series of the Indicateur fidle , initiated in 1771. RARE. (2)
DENIS, LOUIS. Itinraire historique et topographique des grandes routes de France. Paris: chez l'auteur; Pasquier, 1768. Engraved throughout: figurative title, showing a carriage en route, 62 hand-colored strip road maps, printed on versos, descriptive text for the maps on facing rectos, folding hand-colored engraved map of the Route de France, descriptive text of the route de France and alphabetical index of towns, 2-page list of booksellers in various French towns. 32mo, contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt, repairs to head and tail of spine, some mostly marginal browning . -- [Another edition], 1771. 32mo, modern cloth, imperfect, lacking several leaves . Denis's miniature road book may have been the inspiration for Desnos's small-format series of the Indicateur fidle , initiated in 1771. RARE. (2)
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