VUILLEMIN, Alexandre. - Lot 102

VUILLEMIN, Alexandre. Nouveau plan illustré de la ville de Paris, avec le système complet de ses fortifications et forts détachés. A Paris, chez Fatout, Boulevard Poissonnière n°17, (1860). An engraved plan (86 x 110 cm), canvas-backed and folded (approx. 21 x 14 cm.), with 32 segments. Large plan of Paris by Alexandre Vuillemin, engraved on steel by Bénard and colored at the time. A large number of vignettes depicting various monuments and other features, drawn by Testard and engraved by Taylor, are scattered throughout the plan. It depicts Paris in 1860, with the twenty newly-created arrondissements shown in color. Projects are also indicated: roads under construction are shown in pink, those planned in blue. With a table of suburban communes, inside and outside the walled enclosure, and an alphabetical list of Paris streets at the bottom of the plan. Title-band above the plan "Paris in 1860, indicating all changes and projects".