Liste générale des postes de France.

Format:

Government document

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

France. Administration des postes.

Geoffrey Day Collection of Laurence Sterne (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Postal service--France--Early works to 1800--Periodicals.

Postal service.

France.

Post roads--France--Periodicals.

Post roads.

Roads--Location--France--Periodicals.

Roads.

Roads--Location.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Penn Provenance:

de Jonage (bookplate) (RBC copy) (1706 issue)

Plettenberg, Ferdinand von, 1650-1712 (autograph) (RBC copy) (1716 issue)

Esterházy de Galántha, Miklós Ferenc, Graf (bookplate) (RBC copy) (1716 issue)

Plettenberg-Wittem, Mária von, Gräfin (bookplate) (RBC copy) (1716 issue)

Nordkirchen (bookplate) (RBC copy) (1716 issue)

Delapre Abbey (bookplate) (RBC copy) (1763 issue)

Smythe, Robt, Bart. (bookplate) (RBC copy) (1783 issue)

Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Mackie, John William, 1788-1847 (autograph) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Physical Description:

81 volumes : maps ; 14-17 cm

Annual

1706-1786.

Other Title:

Postes de France

Postes, 1706-

Listes des postes, 1752, 1759-1760, 1777

Poste de France, 1763, 1778, 1780-1786

Continues:

État général des postes de France

Place of Publication:

Paris : Jaillot, 1706-1786.

Notes:

"Dressé par ordre de ... ministre et secretaire d'estat ..." (varies)

Volumes for 1706-1771 entirely engraved; 1772-1786 have engraved title page.

For 1743 there were two Listes issued: one "dressé par ordre de Monseigneur Amelot ... Ministre et Secretaire d'État;" and one "dressé par ordre de son eminence Monseigneur le Cardinal de Fleury ... Ministre d'État." For 1757 there were two Listes issued: one "dressé par ordre de Monseigneur Marc Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy Comte Dargenson ... Ministre et Sécretaire d'État;" and one "dressé par ordre de Monseigneur Antoine Louis Rouillé ... Ministre d'État, Grand Tresorier et Commandeur."

Published for the Administration des Postes; <1730-1731> by Robinot; 1780-1786 by Phillipe Denys Pierres.

Local Notes:

RBC copy: spine title varies.

RBC copy: volumes for 1755 and 1775 lack title page.

RBC copy: map of France included in volumes for: 1720-22, 1726, 1731, 1736, 1740, 1742-43 (both issues), 1747, 1749, 1753, 1757 (both issues), 1765, 1767, 1769-70, 1774, 1779-80, 1782-84, 1786.

RBC copy (1716 issue) has 19th-century armorial bookplate with aggroupment of the arms of Graf Miklós Ferenc Esterházy de Galántha (1804-1885) and his wife Gräfin Mária von Plettenberg-Wittem (1809-1861) above the word "Nordkirchen" (their estate, later owned by the Dukes of Arenberg) on front pastedown; ms. inscription ("Nordkirchen") and autograph ("Ferdinand Baron de Plettenberg") of Ferdinand von Plettenberg in brown ink on title leaf.

Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copy acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.

Day Sterne Collection copy has early autograph ("John William Mackie AM Student of Christ Church Oxford.") of John William Mackie (1788-1847) at head of title leaf.

OCLC:

41268404