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[GENERAL LISTS OF POSTS – 18th century].
See original version (French)
74
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[GENERAL LISTS OF POSTS – 18th century].
See original version (French)
Estimate €180 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
[GENERAL LISTS OF POSTS – 18th century].
Set of 2 volumes in their period 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-binding with a small loss on the spine, old graffiti on one endpaper, flyleaf with handwritten annotations).
A fully engraved volume. It comprises 75 pp. of framed text, including the title page engraved by Bourgoin the Elder.
Complete with the fold-out map bound in 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. of framed text. Contemporary fawn sheepskin, originally sewn on the spine (endpapers missing; one folio missing containing 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 French horse-drawn postal service, post houses and courier services, and printed in Paris by Pierres, the King’s chief printer, it served to catalogue all the roads, post houses, 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 with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, moved in 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 mainly staged in the Paris region.
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