FRANCE -- MANUSCRIPT]. "Plan gomtrique de Chantemerle et dpendences lev par ordre de M r de Villemorien par Hrisson fudiste en 1775". Large folding manuscript plan in ink and watercolor, approx. 874 x 1328 mm. (34.3/8 x 51.7/8 in.), divided into sections and mounted on linen, including table of number keys identifying the various fields, forests and farms, manuscript title label on the linen backing, "Dom[ain]e & dpendences de Chantemerle" . The location of this estate has not been identified. [ With :] Seven finely drawn ink and watercolor road maps of central France, [1714]. Various sizes, most large and small folio full sheets, 4 maps with attached manuscript tables, with 7 large folio leaves of manuscript text relating to the relevant road systems (one still attached to its map), occasional short marginal tears . The maps bear the following manuscript titles (titles and place name captions in cursive for the smaller maps and in stencilled capital letters for the larger maps): "Grandes Routes de la Generalit d'Orlans"; "Carte de la Gnralit de la Rochelle"; "Route de Poitiers la Rochelle"; "Grandes Routes de la Generalit de Moulins"; "Grandes Routes d'Auvergne"; "Route de Paris Lyon par Dijon"; and "Route de Limoges Lyon", the last two consisting of 3 and 1 attached sheets respectively. The maps and sheets, foliated in ink, appear to have been extracted from a volume. Sir Herbert George Fordham, wax seal on several text leaves and map versos.
FRANCE -- MANUSCRIPT]. "Plan gomtrique de Chantemerle et dpendences lev par ordre de M r de Villemorien par Hrisson fudiste en 1775". Large folding manuscript plan in ink and watercolor, approx. 874 x 1328 mm. (34.3/8 x 51.7/8 in.), divided into sections and mounted on linen, including table of number keys identifying the various fields, forests and farms, manuscript title label on the linen backing, "Dom[ain]e & dpendences de Chantemerle" . The location of this estate has not been identified. [ With :] Seven finely drawn ink and watercolor road maps of central France, [1714]. Various sizes, most large and small folio full sheets, 4 maps with attached manuscript tables, with 7 large folio leaves of manuscript text relating to the relevant road systems (one still attached to its map), occasional short marginal tears . The maps bear the following manuscript titles (titles and place name captions in cursive for the smaller maps and in stencilled capital letters for the larger maps): "Grandes Routes de la Generalit d'Orlans"; "Carte de la Gnralit de la Rochelle"; "Route de Poitiers la Rochelle"; "Grandes Routes de la Generalit de Moulins"; "Grandes Routes d'Auvergne"; "Route de Paris Lyon par Dijon"; and "Route de Limoges Lyon", the last two consisting of 3 and 1 attached sheets respectively. The maps and sheets, foliated in ink, appear to have been extracted from a volume. Sir Herbert George Fordham, wax seal on several text leaves and map versos.
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