"Lequinio (j.-m.) - Picturesque And Physical-economic Journey In The Jura. 1801."
LEQUINIO (J.-M.) - Picturesque and Physical-Economic Journey in the Jura. Paris, Libraires Associés, Year IX (1801); octavo, XII-488 + 511 pp. + a large folding map of the Jura with colored contours, antique half-calf bindings, decorated spines, marbled edges. Both volumes.
The author is known to be a forestry officer and of Breton origin. His journey to the Jura took place in the aftermath of the French Revolution, which makes this text doubly interesting, as it explores the period between the Revolution and the Empire within a French department.