Atlas de L’Histoire du Consulat et de L’Empire Dresse et Dessine Sous La Direction de M. Thiers Par MM. A. Dufour et Duvotenay. [The Thiers Atlas].
Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas
Atlas de L’Histoire du Consulat et de L’Empire Dresse et Dessine Sous La Direction de M. Thiers Par MM. A. Dufour et Duvotenay. [The Thiers Atlas].
THIERS, Adolphe.
$450.00
Item Number: 131402
Paris: Librairie Furne, n.d..
Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas, containing 66 maps and battle plans drawn by two of the best cartographers of Second Empire. Quarto, quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated with 66 plates by Dufour and Duvotenay printed by Dyonnet. In very good condition. A very nice example.
Theirs' monumental atlas contains an enormous greographical and chronological spread of the sale of national property and the fiscal reorganisation of the regions in France, Belgium and the left bank of the Rhine, for the most part during the Revolution and the Empire.