WALL-MOUNTED CARD PRESENTER WITH AUTOMATIC REELS, BY ALPHONSE GIROUX ET COMPAGNIE, MID-19th CENTURY A rectangular rosewood and rosewood veneer inlaid with brass, with a guilloche outline. It is titled "Atlas géographique" and shows the titles of the maps. On one side, there are six push-buttons to rewind the maps of Asia Minor, South America, Germany... The maps by Adrien Brué, geographer to the king, completed and finished by Charles Picquet, geographer to the king and to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, Paris, 1838, 1843, 1844. With a monogram surmounted by a comtal crown and on the back a plate marked Alph. Giroux et Cie/rue du coq St honoré 7/PARIS (Some accidents and missing parts including a broken front knob and a side locking knob, the maps yellowed and stained) A WALL-MOUNTED MAP DISPLAY BY ALPHONSE GIROUX AND COMPAGNIE, MID-19TH CENTURY 44 x 66 x 10 CM - 17,3 x 26 x 3,9 IN. François-Simon-Alphonse Giroux (1776-1848) set up his shop around 1799 in the rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré in Paris. He sold all sorts of curiosities, tableware and stationery. Around the 1820s, he specialised in the manufacture of refined objects. Kings Louis XVIII and Charles X bought presents for Princess Louise and the Duke of Bordeaux. Around 1825-1830, Giroux expanded into cabinetmaking. In 1827, it supplied the furniture for the King's bedroom and was awarded a silver medal at the 1834 Exhibition for its furniture. In 1838, the company was taken over by his two sons, Alphonse-Gustave (1810-1886) and André (1801-1879), and renamed Alphonse Giroux et Cie. In 1855, A. Giroux & Cie took part in the Universal Exhibition in Paris, where it presented a lindenwood day-happy carved with a luxuriant naturalist décor, purchased for Compiègne by Empress Eugénie.