Live auction - Lot 906
[Atlas - Belgium]
Carte chorographique de la Belgique en soixante neuf feuilles dressée d'après celle de Ferraris [...].
Paris, Hennequin, Denos [et al.], an IV [1795/96]
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
Sm. folio: title, 80 ff. (index sheet cut short shaving the note at the lower edge, few spots).
Mod. quarter leather, marbled paper boards, flat spine with red leather label (edges, spine and boards sl. rubbed, corners bumped).
French edition of the Ferraris map by the 2 collaborators at the Carte de France. With the engr. title, an index sheet/map ("Tableau d'assemblage") dated "An V", 66 sectional maps (numb. 2-65, with 2 diff. maps 58bis), a large general map "Carte des neuf départements qui forment la nouvelle division de la Belgique [...]" (2nd state) in 4 sheets and unnumb. 9 additional sectional maps of parts of Germany (the 8 maps mentioned in T-Cap-1b and enriched with the map titled "Bacherach"). Some maps printed on bluish paper.
Ref. Lemoine-Isabeau, C. - La cartographie du territoire belge de 1780 à 1830. Brux., Musée royal de l'Armée, 1997, pp. 217. - Shirley T-Cap-1a & T.Cap-1b.