Null [HABERT DE MONTMORT]. Extract or general table of the woods and forests of …
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[HABERT DE MONTMORT]. Extract or general table of the woods and forests of Provence divided into 23 vigueries, adjacent lands and land of Marseille. Without place nor name nor date (1st third of the XVIII°). In plano (68 x 50 cm) of 40 handwritten sheets, red morocco, large and small arms on the boards framed with a large gilt lace and corner fleurdelysé, spine ribbed and decorated with fleurdelysé (binding of the time). In 1661, at the beginning of his personal reign, Louis XIV assisted by Colbert, Secretary of State for the Navy and Superintendent of Water and Forests, launched a great reformation of the royal forests for the supply of wood for the Navy. He had the forests managed with the obligation to keep a part of each forest in high forest. A survey conducted by Habert de Montmor, intendant of the galleys in Marseille, in the years 1682-1683, shows the locations of wood production throughout Provence. THIS EXCEPTIONAL AND UNIQUE DOCUMENT is a complete handwritten copy of the 1683-87 registers of the Toulon Navy, long since lost. Cf : Barri, Labbas and Bernardi in " De la forêt au bâtiment. A multidisciplinary approach to wood roofing in southeastern France (XII-XIX centuries). Private archives of Guy Jourdan-Barry, Marseille ". The resources of hundreds of towns and villages in the vicerages of Aix, Tarascon, Forcalquier, Hyères, Grasse, Brignoles, Sisteron, Draguignan, etc., are indicated with the names of the wood and forest districts, the species (oak, white pine, pines), the quantities of trees in detail, the proportions of the wood (length and size) and what they are used for. Also the detailed itinerary, with the difficulties of transport precisely described, to the sea. The binding, executed in the 18th century, bears the arms of the Habert de Montmort family with the handwritten legend on the cover "To Monsieur le Marquis de Thomassin de Saint Paul, President à mortier du Parlement de Provence". (O.H.R., pl. 151). Spine rebound, traces on the boards. Provenance : Copy with the arms of the Habert de Montmort family.

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[HABERT DE MONTMORT]. Extract or general table of the woods and forests of Provence divided into 23 vigueries, adjacent lands and land of Marseille. Without place nor name nor date (1st third of the XVIII°). In plano (68 x 50 cm) of 40 handwritten sheets, red morocco, large and small arms on the boards framed with a large gilt lace and corner fleurdelysé, spine ribbed and decorated with fleurdelysé (binding of the time). In 1661, at the beginning of his personal reign, Louis XIV assisted by Colbert, Secretary of State for the Navy and Superintendent of Water and Forests, launched a great reformation of the royal forests for the supply of wood for the Navy. He had the forests managed with the obligation to keep a part of each forest in high forest. A survey conducted by Habert de Montmor, intendant of the galleys in Marseille, in the years 1682-1683, shows the locations of wood production throughout Provence. THIS EXCEPTIONAL AND UNIQUE DOCUMENT is a complete handwritten copy of the 1683-87 registers of the Toulon Navy, long since lost. Cf : Barri, Labbas and Bernardi in " De la forêt au bâtiment. A multidisciplinary approach to wood roofing in southeastern France (XII-XIX centuries). Private archives of Guy Jourdan-Barry, Marseille ". The resources of hundreds of towns and villages in the vicerages of Aix, Tarascon, Forcalquier, Hyères, Grasse, Brignoles, Sisteron, Draguignan, etc., are indicated with the names of the wood and forest districts, the species (oak, white pine, pines), the quantities of trees in detail, the proportions of the wood (length and size) and what they are used for. Also the detailed itinerary, with the difficulties of transport precisely described, to the sea. The binding, executed in the 18th century, bears the arms of the Habert de Montmort family with the handwritten legend on the cover "To Monsieur le Marquis de Thomassin de Saint Paul, President à mortier du Parlement de Provence". (O.H.R., pl. 151). Spine rebound, traces on the boards. Provenance : Copy with the arms of the Habert de Montmort family.

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