Quarto (290 x 222 mm); double-page engraved title-page, double-page engraved dedication (creased), 16pp discours preliminaire, fifty double-page engraved maps, set within separately engraved elaborate borders, two large folding maps (dated 1774 & 1776), all in original outline colour. Contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards, gilt, red morocco label to spine. Boards and extremities worn and scuffed. Paris : Louis-Charles Desnos, 1782.
Fascinating history of France told through a sequence of maps.
