67 - [Paris]. PASQUIER, Jean Jacques. DENIS, Louis.

[Paris]. PASQUIER, Jean Jacques. DENIS, Louis. Topographical and Annotated Map of Paris, a Useful Work for Citizens and Foreigners... Paris: Pasquier, 1771. In-12 (17 x 10 cm), (3) folios including title page, 149–34–(1) pp., 3 plates (map, chart, and assembly diagram), 40 plans, and one map in the text. Contemporary piebald calfskin, ribbed spine, gilt fillets framing the covers, red edges (binding worn, small losses on the spine, a few loose quires, but interior remains fairly fresh). Third corrected and expanded edition, published in 1771, of the first guide map of Paris, first published in 1758. The second edition appeared in 1763 and 1765, and a fourth edition in 1776, according to Boutier. This work, entirely engraved on copper, consists of a title page, a double-page map of Paris, an assembly chart, and 40 sheets of maps of the city’s districts, engraved within the text and numbered from I to XXXVIII, with sheets 39 and 40 bearing the numbers XXXIV and XI, respectively (an error noted by Boutier). Followed by a double-page map of the Paris environs, also engraved within the text. This edition includes the map “Archdiocese and Surroundings of Paris, Divided into Its 7 Rural Deaneries, &c., 1768,” which appears for the first time in the second edition, followed by its alphabetical index of cities, towns, [...]. Boutier, 258 and 257 D.