Louis-Charles. Etrennes utiles et nécessaires aux commercans et voyageurs ou indicateur fidèle enseignant toutes les routes royales et particulières de la France, et les chemins de communication qu

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DESNOS, Louis-Charles. Etrennes utiles et nécessaires aux commercans et voyageurs ou indicateur fidèle enseignant toutes les routes royales et particulières de la France, et les chemins de communication qui traversent les grandes routes … dédiées au Roi … Paris: [Louis-Charles] Desnos. 1777. 24mo. Contemporary red morocco, borders roll-tooled in gilt, flat spine richly gilt in compartments, green gilt morocco lettering-piece, edges gilt, turn-ins roll-tooled in gilt, blue silk place-marker (detached); ff. [iv], 176, 47 (index), [1], comprising comprising 156 maps in pagination, bound without preliminary map of Paris; frontispiece copper-engraved and titled ‘Routes de France’, contemporary hand-colouring in blue, green, and red, part-title to index; lower edge of rear board chipped and worn; old repair to front free endpaper verso at head, sporadic light toning and and spotting, a few small pale dampstains; else a very good copy; faint contemporary ownership inscription to title, early ownership inscriptions ‘William Waters’ and ‘W. Waters, 7 Curzon St, Mayfair’ to front flyleaf, nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Cornelius Walford, F.S.S. to front free endpaper verso (engraved by Harry Soane, Franks 30564). Extremely rare edition of this guidebook of maps for merchants and travellers in France and surrounding countries, another issue of which would be used by Thomas Jefferson on his 1787 tour as United States Minister to France, our copy from the library of a found

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