Plan-guide, souvenir de l'Exposition industrielle et agricole, 1849, 1849. [1849] Floor plan of the Palais de l'industrie, labelled to show where the various products were exhibited at the exposition of 1844. It was the 11th in a series of expositions of French manufactures that began in 1798, and the first to include agricultural products. The building replaced an earlier hall of the same name built for an exhibition of 1839, and was in turn replaced by a building for the Paris World's Fair of 1855. See Wikipedia, "Palais de l'industrie," consulted 7/27/15. Vallée lists the plan's 1st edition
Plan-guide, souvenir de l'Exposition industrielle et agricole, 1849, 1849. [1849] Floor plan of the Palais de l'industrie, labelled to show where the various products were exhibited at the exposition of 1844. It was the 11th in a series of expositions of French manufactures that began in 1798, and the first to include agricultural products. The building replaced an earlier hall of the same name built for an exhibition of 1839, and was in turn replaced by a building for the Paris World's Fair of 1855. See Wikipedia, "Palais de l'industrie," consulted 7/27/15. Vallée lists the plan's 1st edition but not this 2nd edition. See: L. Vallée, Catalogue des plans de Paris, 393. Title at head of plan. In left and right margins is alphabetical list of items exhibited, keyed to plan numbered horizontally 1-67 and lettered vertically A-Z, &, Æ. View of exhibition building's entrance and park at foot. Page [1] of wrapper is title, page [2] a brief text, page [3]-[4] Bouquillard's advertisements. Edition Statement: 2me édition, prix 30 ces.
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