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France elaborately mapped: a famous and rare atlas including key maps for travellers

BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis & Louis Charles DESNOS.
Coup d'oeil général sur la France, pour servir d'introduction au tableau analytique et géographique de ce Royaume. Dressé par différens géographes, dont les ouvrages sont aussi connus qu'estimés, faisant partie de l'Atlas historique de la France ancienne & moderne, mise au jour & dirigé par le sieur Desnos, ingénieur-géographe pour les Globes & Sphéres.

With a double-paged frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a double-page engraved title:

With a double-paged frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a double-page engraved title:

With a double-paged frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a double-page engraved title:

With a double-paged frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a double-page engraved title:

With a double-paged frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a double-page engraved title:



Paris, Grangé, Guillyn, Desnos, a.o., 1765. Large 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title label, with blind-stamped tripple fillets on sides, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. With a double-paged frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a double-page engraved title: "Tableau Analytique de La France dans lequel on donne une connoissance générale et detaillédu Royaume, ... dirigé par le S. Desnos. Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1765", followed by a large folding engraved geo-spherical map of France by Rizzi Zannoni and 29 double-page engraved analytical maps of France, all set within ornamental borders and all nicely coloured by hand, 2 "Cartes odographiques" with the distances between French cities, both dated 1763, a double-page engraved title "Le Petit Neptune François ou carte des côtes maritimes du Royaume (1765)", followed by 3 double-page charts of the French coasts, all coloured by hand, a large folding engraved map of France by Croisey after Rizzi Zannoni (1765), also hand-coloured, a double-page engraved title "L'Indicateur Fidèle ou Guide des Voyageurs", followed by a double-page engraved general road-map of France with circles with Paris in the center, indicating the distances between the capital and other French cities, and 10 folding and 8 double-page engraved French road-maps, all coloured by hand. 15 (4), 8, 10 pp. text.

With:
(2) CATALOGUE des Ouvrages, tant anciens que modernes, du Fonds du Sr. Desnos. Paris, 1765. 16 pp.

First edition of a rare atlas of France, mapping out the country from all possible useful points of view, with 'analytical' maps, dividing France according to all possible public and private institutions or services, showing not only the various geographical and political divisions of France, but also the military, ecclesiastical, juridical, genealogical, commercial, financial, etc., etc. divisions, even hunting territories. The atlas also includes a small sea-atlas withn3 charts showing the French coasts, as well as a French road atlas, mapping out all the traveling routes of France. The maps were all made under the direction of Louis Charles Desnos, but they were drawn by various mapmakers. Several of the analytical maps and all sea charts were drawn by Rizzi Zannoni, and all the road maps by Michel, Royal geographer and engineer of the Paris Observatoire.
All maps, 52 in total, were newly made, and dated 1763-5. Of interest is the added catalogue of the stock of Mr. Desnos, a Paris publisher, bookseller and engineer geographer of globes and spheres at Paris. All parts of the present atlas, the Atlas Analytique, the Petit Neptune, and the L'Indicateur Fidele are offered for sale in the catalogue separately as well. In the present composition however, published by Louis Brion de la Cour (ca. 1745-1823), the atlas is in first edition, and exactly as issued, with all maps, including the titles of the Petit Neptune and the L'Indicateur, dated 1765. Most maps are attractively decorated and set within broad ornamental borders, and all are most carefully and attractively coloured.the maps three additional texts follow: the "Prospectus du guide des voyageurs pour des routes royales & particulières de la France & autres" (pp. 1-2), a "Catalogue alphabetique des routes royales et particulières" (pp. 3-8), and a "Catalogue alphabetique du supplement des 1380 villes de France" (pp. 1-10).

Splendid copy, in fine and strictly contemporary colouring.- (2 maps browned on verso).
Cf. Phillips 2990-2993 (all three parts separate, with the "Neptune" and "L'Indicateur" dated 1766); Quérard I, 515.

Related Subjects: Atlases [Europe]  Atlases [Sea]  Cartography  France 

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