JAILLOT. Recherches critiques, historiques et topographiques - Lot 27

JAILLOT. Recherches critiques, historiques et topographiques sur la ville de Paris. Paris, Aug. Mart. Lottin, 1772 - 1775. 5 vols. in-8. Contemporary full speckled fawn calf, cold-stamped fillet on covers, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco title-pieces. With map of each district. First edition of this work published between 1772 and 1775 in twenty fascicles, each devoted to a different district of Paris, brought together in 1775 in 5 volumes. The edition is illustrated with 25 fold-out plans by Perrier, some of them very large, each bound at the end of its fascicule (Quartier 15 Saint-Antoine contains three large fold-out maps, including Plan de la partie méridionale and Partie orientale, Quartier 16, la Place Maubert: two plans: Septentrionale and Méridionale, Quartier 19, Luxembourg: 2 plans, 20th quartier, St Germain des Près: 2 plans). Complete with the Alphabetical Table of the XX parts of Recherches sur Paris, and enriched with M. Jaillot's Answer... to some Critical Letters on his Work. General title page for volumes II to V. Each fascicle has retained its title and masthead (quarters 1 to 3) or a simple masthead (following) as well as its particular pagination. A fine copy.