[DUPLESSSIS (Michel Toussaint Chrétien). Description géograp - Lot 510

[DUPLESSSIS (Michel Toussaint Chrétien). Description géographique et historique de la Haute-Normandie divisée en deux parties, le première comprend le pais de Caux et la seconde le Vexin. On y a joint un Dictionnaire géographique complet, & les cartes géorgraphiques de ces deux provinces. Paris, Didot, 1740. 2 vol. in-4 of (6) ff, 752 pp, (2) ff ; (6) ff, 828 pp, (1) f., half-basin, ribbed spine, lemon morocco title-pieces, green morocco end-pieces (period binding). First edition. 1 of 2 folding maps (map of the Vexin, detached) and 1 hors-texte plate (map of Rouen Cathedral, bound at the end of vol. 2). The privilege of this book was granted to François Didot, who associated the widow Ganeau, P.-F. Giffart, Nyon père and Nyon fils. This explains the presence of these names on copies of this 1740 first edition. M. de la Vergne de Tressan, archbishop of Rouen, commissioned Du Plessis, a Benedictine monk from Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, to write a description of the diocese of Rouen. Although the project never came to fruition, an important part of this considerable work was taken up and published in this book. Ex-libris "Ex museo J. Vasse" on the flyleaves, ex-libris JM on the first endpapers. A fine copy. (Frère, I, 404)