74 - [GENERAL LISTS OF POSTS - 18th Century].

[GENERAL LISTS OF POSTS - 18th Century]. Set of 2 volumes in their original bindings. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. -GENERAL LIST OF POSTS IN FRANCE compiled by order of Monseigneur Marc Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, Count Dargenson Paris: published by Mr. Jaillot, January 1753. Small 12mo. Fine, finely speckled, varnished havana calfskin of the period; decorated ribbed spine; gilt title; red edges (small tear without loss on the map; slight re-stitching of the binding with a small loss on the spine; old graffiti on one endpaper; title page with handwritten annotations). Entirely engraved volume. It consists of 75 pp. of framed text, including the title page engraved by Bourgoin the Elder. Complete with the fold-out map bound at the end, *General Map of the Post Offices of France*, by Desbruslins—which is not all that common, as the map was often detached upon publication. -[DUC DE POLIGNAC, Armand-Jules-François]. General List of Post Offices in France for the Year 1786. Paris: Philippe-Denys Pierres, (1786). In-12, (5)-199-(3) pp. text in a frame. Contemporary fawn sheepskin, originally sewn on the spine (endpapers missing; one folio missing from the privilege or register extract at the end; binding rubbed) Ex libris MS Galland 1789. Compiled under the authority of the Duke of Polignac, then Director General of the Horse Post, Stages, and Courier Services of France, and printed in Paris by Pierres, the King’s chief printer, this work served to catalog all roads, post stations, distances, and postal rates throughout the kingdom on the eve of the Revolution. Numerous handwritten numerical annotations from the period on the endpapers. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of fine bindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the decorative arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.