<i>Atlas administratif de Paris</i> ([Paris: Lottin de St-Germain, 1828?]) [Marquand Art Library]. Seventeen copperplate maps, fourteen with added color, each 35.3 × 46.8 cm. Each map was printed with a blank round title cartouche in the upper right, to be pasted over with a different engraved title label. The first edition appeared in 1821, and only about a dozen copies of that have been catalogued in national databases.
<p>First urban thematic atlas. It consists of fourteen copies of the same map of Paris, each devoted to a specific subject identified in the title cartouche (such as lighting districts, sewers, markets, firefighting districts); hand-coloring adds the visual thematic layer. Princeton’s copy also includes three blank, uncolored copies of the map bound in the back—reserved, presumably, for future topics.<br></p>
The map traces the routes of water pipes that feed the various fountains in Paris. Four colors are used to indicate different water sources: Seine (via two pumping systems), Arcueil, and Ourcq.
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N. M. Maire</div>
circa 1828 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1828-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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