- Title: 1879 Nouveau Paris Ou Guide Des Etrangers
- Author: Brenardin Bechet
- Date: 1879
- Condition: Exhibts light toning, minor soiling, and short separations along the fold lines, including a small hole at the top-right fold intersection. Both covers show signs of wear, including small surface abrasions.
- Inches: 24 3/8 x 18 1/2 [Paper]
- Centimeters: 61.91 x 46.99 [Paper]
- Product ID: 308705
This charming pocket map of Paris is divided into the city’s 20 arrondissements, each designated by Roman numerals and indexed at right. Issued as a practical tourist map for “foreigners,” it offers a remarkably detailed street-level view of the city and depicts major landmarks in handsome three-dimensional perspective, including the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Hôtel des Invalides. Published a decade before the Eiffel Tower transformed the skyline, it preserves an engaging image of Paris in an earlier era. At upper left, a list of the city’s “portes,” or gates, identifies the fortified wall that once enclosed the metropolis.
Background on Creator
Bernardin Béchet was a 19th-century Parisian bookseller, publisher, and cartographer active in the production of educational and commercial printed works. He is associated with maps and atlases published in Paris, including material issued under the Bernardin-Béchet imprint and later by Bernardin-Bechet and Fils.