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

Paris, by the author-owner P.G. Chanlaire, [1796-1797]

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Obl. folio: 68 ff. (very few spots throughout, sm. marg. tear in map 50 (Dinant), some edges sl. soiled).

Contemp. half sheep, blue paper boards with title label on front board (front joint and hinge almost completely split, back joint split, boards and spine very rubbed). Uncut copy.

French edition of the Ferraris map by the two collaborators at the Carte de France (1st 1792-1796). With the engr. title, an index sheet/map ("Tableau d'assemblage") dated "An V", 66 sectional maps (numb. 2-65, suppl. with n. 53bis and 58bis). With a ms. table at the end.
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. - Shirley T-Cap-1c.