Jaillot - Les rues et les environs de Paris - 1777

Jaillot, Jean-Baptiste-Michel Renou de Chauvigné, pseudonym. Streets and surroundings of Paris. Paris, Langlois, 1777, 2 volumes, xviii-637 pages, 477 pages.

2 volumes in-12 (175x105 mm), marbled full calf, decorated spine with raised bands, title and volume labels in red morocco, red edges (from the period). Slight rubbing and wear on the covers, small loss at the tail of the spine of the volume, head caps trimmed. Interior is fresh, with rare foxing.

New edition more comprehensive than previous ones. A fold-out map of the 'twenty districts of the city of Paris and its suburbs' at the beginning of volume I; a large fold-out map of the 'Environs of Paris' at the beginning of volume II. Complete.

The first volume contains the names of streets and addresses of places such as convents, hospitals, barriers, or churches. The second volume concerns the surroundings of Paris within a radius of eighteen leagues around the capital.