Marin

1709 · rif. 169590 — Paris: Chez Claude Saugrain 1709. Population in the ancien régime First edition of this census of France in the last years of Louis XIV. Saugrain's work provides the number of households in virtually every town and commune: the work "allows one to estimate with only a small margin of error the population of France and its distribution" Pounds p. 93 Claude-Marin Saugrain 1679-1750 seems to have been primarily employed in the Paris book trade. Although his census was not financed by the government Saugrain drew heavily on the individual population reports of Louis's Intendants forerunners of the modern French préfets. 2 vols duodecimo 164 x 95 mm pp. xx 408; xiv 342. Woodcut ornament to title pages head- and tailpieces. Contemporary sprinkled calf spines ruled and decorated with fleur-de-lys device in gilt and with raised bands and red morocco labels marbled endpapers edges red green silk bookmarkers. Extensive contemporary ink annotations to both vols. 19th-century engraved bookplate of "Marande" to front pastedown of both vols. Light rubbing and scoring several ink splashes to covers joints and extremities neatly restored minor browning and foxing to endpapers and contents: a very good copy. Norman John Greville Pounds An Historical Geography of Europe 1500-1840 1979. hardcover