Carte Chorographique de la Belgique en soixante neuf feuilles dressée d'après celle de Ferraris [...].

Paris, J.B. Delaval, [1797-1807]

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Sm. folio: title, 71 ff. (ms. notes, spotted and sl. toned).

Romantic binding: black calf, gilt-orn. and blind-st. covers and spine (spine damaged, weak joints, sl. used).

French edition of the Ferraris map by the two collaborators at the Carte de France (1st 1792-1796). With a title, an index sheet/map dated "An V" (1797), 66 sectional maps of Belgium (in fact 64 continuously numbered, suppl. with nr. 53 bis and 58 bis), and 4 large folding maps, entitled "Carte des treize départements réunis à la partie septentrionale de l'Empire Français, comprenant la Belgique et les pays conquis à la rive gauche du Rhin [...]." (Paris, P.G. Chanlaire, 1807). The index map reunites the individual map sheets with those of the Carte de France.
Ref. Lemoine-Isabeau, C. - La cartographie du territoire belge de 1780 à 1830. Brussels, Musée royal de l'Armée, 1997, pp. 217 and 235-236. - Cp. Shirley T-Cap (not this ed.).
Prov. Charles-Xavier Sainctelette (1825-1898), Belgian minister (gilt stamped on spine).