BINDING WITH THE COAT OF ARMS OF MME DE POMPADOUR. - CASSINI - Lot 15

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BINDING WITH THE COAT OF ARMS OF MME DE POMPADOUR. - CASSINI - Lot 15
BINDING WITH THE COAT OF ARMS OF MME DE POMPADOUR. - CASSINI DE THURY (César-François), dir.]. Map drawn under his direction in the eighteenth century, engraved on copper with hand-colored highlights. S.l.n.d. Oblong broadsheet folded into 40 in-12 pieces with period cloth reinforcement on verso, mitered in a marbled glazed calf portfolio, smooth spine decorated with title and numbering pieces, triple gilt fillet framing the boards with gilt corner finials and gilt coat of arms in the center, ornamented edges; misplaced essay erased from an iron, portfolio a little worn, cracks at the folds of the map (period binding). Portion of Cassini's map covering the region including Besançon, Ornans, Vercel, Pontarlier, (plate no. 146). BINDING WITH THE ARMS OF THE MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR (OHR, first format of the version with variations of iron no. 4 on plate no. 2399). Absent from his library's sales catalog.
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