{"title":"France Maps","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"northern-france-belgium-map-1916-western-front-print-lille-calais-dunkirk-ghent-bruges","title":"Northern France \u0026 Belgium Map 1916 Western Front Print - Lille, Calais, Dunkirk, Ghent, Bruges","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe London Geographical Institute, the imprint of the London map house George Philip \u0026amp; Son, produced this map of the Western Front for the Daily Mail, which issued it as page 3 of War Panorama, a set of twenty bird's-eye views and maps of the world-wide war. The catalog dates the sheet to about 1916 and credits Philip with the printing, and the clean color work, with railways picked out in red against green land and blue water, shows a commercial house turning a newspaper feature into a proper piece of cartography. It covers the strip of northern France and Belgium from the North Sea coast inland to Arras, it is classed as a military atlas map, and it was drawn when the trench line across this ground had barely moved for more than a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYpres, which the map emphasizes among its principal railway centers, had stood at the tip of a salient since the first battle of 1914, and it was there in April 1915 that gas was first used on a large scale. Lille, held by German forces since October 1914, lay well behind their lines, while Arras marks the southern end of the sheet. The Channel ports of Calais, Dunkirk and Boulogne are labeled on the coast, and each served as a gateway for the British soldiers and supplies crossing from England. Ghent, Bruges and Tournai lie farther east inside occupied Belgium. Railways are the organizing idea of the whole sheet, which suits a front that depended on rail to move troops and shells.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA descendant of a soldier who served in Flanders or Picardy, a student of the First World War, or anyone who has walked the battlefields around Ypres and Arras will find a meaningful gift here, perhaps for a commemoration or a family reunion. TheMapVault's Teesdale map of 1831 and Pinkerton's of 1809 show the whole of France in peacetime, whereas this Daily Mail sheet concentrates on one narrow corridor and treats it as a theater of war. It was made for a newspaper reader at home, so it explains the front through simple colors and railway lines rather than a surveyor's detail. 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Jean-Baptiste Tardieu engraved the sheet at his address in the rue Saint-Jacques and Giraldon lettered it, so the credits read like a roll call of the Paris map craftsmen of the Napoleonic years. The result is a hand-colored copper engraving of 22 by 29 centimeters, with borders tinted in yellow, blue, green and red, hachured relief and a decorative cartouche that give it the polish of a prestige item rather than a school map. It shows the empire as it stood in 1809, when Napoleon had been emperor for five years and his authority reached across much of western Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe map is oriented on Paris, which serves as the prime meridian, a reminder that France measured longitude from its own capital long before Greenwich became the world standard. The empire's neighbors appear around it, the regions of present-day Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and western Germany, with the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea labeled on its coasts. Inside France the departments created in 1790 had replaced the old provinces, and the hand-applied color marks their frontiers and those of adjoining states. Great rivers such as the Seine, the Loire, the Rhône and the Garonne were the arteries of the country's trade and give the sheet its natural lines. Linear scales in lieues and milles show how a reader of 1809 measured distance, and the title cartouche sits at the upper right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Napoleonic history enthusiast, a Parisian family, or a collector of French cartographic craft will find a distinctive gift here, perhaps for a wedding or a milestone birthday. TheMapVault's Pinkerton map of France, also dated 1809, is a London view of the country alone with a Corsica inset and every department in color, while Teesdale's 1831 map shows France after the empire had fallen; this Lapie sheet is the French one, made in Paris and reaching beyond France to the whole empire. It is also the only map in the group lettered and engraved by named Paris craftsmen. 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Teesdale had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830, and his firm's atlases were prized for careful engraving and tidy outline coloring, as here, where thin pastel washes trace each administrative division without crowding the page. The sheet measures 41 by 34 centimeters at a scale of 1:4,300,000, shows relief by hachures, and carries a complete inset of Corsica and a keyed list of the provinces down its left margin. It records France in the first year after the July Revolution of 1830, when Louis-Philippe replaced Charles X on a throne that now rested on a more liberal charter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis sits at the hub of the French road system, and the highways that radiate from it were the sinews of a centralized state. Lyon, where the Rhône meets the Saône, commands the southeast and had made its fortune in silk weaving, while Marseille, the oldest port in the country, looks across the Mediterranean to Algiers, which a French army had invaded in 1830. Corsica, drawn in its own inset, had been French since 1768, and Napoleon was born at Ajaccio the following year. The old provincial names, such as Brittany, Normandy, Burgundy and Languedoc, still lived in common use even though departments governed the country, and the keyed list on the margin keeps that older geography alive. The sheet therefore shows a nation between the empire and the modern state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA traveler planning a journey from Calais to the Mediterranean, a family with roots in Brittany or Burgundy, or a collector of Teesdale and Dower atlas maps will find a lasting gift here. TheMapVault's Pinkerton map of 1809 shows the same country under Napoleon on a much larger sheet with every department in color, while Cram's 1883 map and the 1964 Pergamon sheet carry the story into the Third Republic and the postwar era; this Teesdale edition is the outline-colored view of the restored monarchy years, drawn for a British audience following continental affairs. It is plain, precise and legible rather than ornamental. 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The sheet is dated 1964, although the atlas imprint reads 1968, and it was printed in Warsaw by Wojskowe Zakłady Kartograficzne on beige paper that gives the tinted colors a warm, even ground. The atlas was famous for its sheer scale, weighing nearly 5.5 kilograms and holding about 48 square meters of maps, and its France sheet at 1:2,500,000 measures a generous 55 by 40 centimeters, with relief shown in graded tints from green lowlands through browns to reds for the Alps and the Pyrenees. It is a political and physical map of France with four insets, drawn as the Fifth Republic under Charles de Gaulle settled into stability after the loss of Algeria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour insets extend the sheet beyond the main outline. Corsica appears at its own scale, showing the mountainous terrain of the island, while Andorra, the Pyrenean co-principality governed jointly by the French head of state and the Spanish bishop of Urgell, receives a separate map. The Massif Central, the old volcanic and crystalline upland at the middle of the country, is drawn to emphasize its rugged ground, and Lyon, the regional hub where the Rhône meets the Saône, is shown with its transport network. On the main sheet the major cities, rivers, roads and boundaries are marked, with the Alps and the Pyrenees standing out in darker tints along the frontiers. The map reflects a country rebuilding its roads, railways and cities in the postwar boom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hiker who has crossed the Pyrenees into Andorra, a family from Lyon or the Massif Central, or a geography teacher who loves the physical landscape will find a thoughtful gift here, perhaps for a retirement or a house move. Among TheMapVault's other France sheets, the maps by Teesdale, Morse, Mitchell and Cram are nineteenth-century engravings with hachured hills, while this is the only postwar map, printed in graded color tints for a modern atlas. It is also the only one in the group with Andorra, Lyon and the Massif Central as insets. 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Morse drew and engraved this map of France and Switzerland for Morse's General Atlas of the World, which D. Appleton and Company of New York published in 1856 with descriptions and statistics by Charles Colby. The atlas is Morse's only folio, and it draws on the cerographic maps that Sidney E. Morse and Breese had pioneered, a wax-engraving process cheaper than copper, but here each sheet was colored by hand, giving the printing more finish than most American atlas maps of the decade. The catalog describes him as the son of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. The map measures 32 by 36 centimeters at 1:4,300,000, shows relief by hachures, uses both Washington and Greenwich as prime meridians, and outlines the borders of both countries in red, in a year when the Treaty of Paris ended the Crimean War and Napoleon III's Second Empire stood at the height of its European prestige.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrance is divided into its départements, each tinted in its own color, and the sheet labels the North Sea and the Mediterranean on its edges. Paris, the capital of the Second Empire, stands on the Seine, while Lyon, at the junction of the Rhône and the Saône, was the center of the French silk trade. Geneva, on the lake that bears its name, lies on the Swiss border and was already the home of watchmakers and bankers. Switzerland itself had become a federal state under the constitution of 1848, which its neighbors watched closely after the revolutions of that year. Hachures show the Alps and the Jura, the ranges that divide the two countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn American collector of Morse and Appleton atlases, a family with ties to Lyon or Geneva, or a student of the Second Empire will find a pointed gift here. TheMapVault's Mitchell sheet of 1860 shows France with Spain and Portugal and insets of Switzerland and Corsica, and Cram's 1883 map is a plainer single-country view; this Morse map is the one that pairs France with Switzerland on a hand-colored sheet and shows the Alpine frontier between them. It is also the earliest of the American atlas maps in this France group. 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Hebert drew and Samuel John Neele engraved at 352 Strand in London, and which Cadell and Davies and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown published on 1 March 1809. The atlas, completed in sixty maps with a title page of 1815, is regarded as one of the best English atlases of its period, comparable to Thomson's General Atlas of 1817. This sheet is a full hand-colored engraving of 70 by 52 centimeters at 1:2,250,000, with relief by hachures and each department distinctly colored, which gives it a bold, decorative look beside smaller atlas maps of the same country. It shows France in the spring of 1809, when Napoleon governed a Europe in arms and Britain, where the map was published, was his chief opponent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrance is divided into its departments, the administrative units that the Revolution created in 1790, each colored to stand apart from its neighbors. Paris sits on the Seine at the center of the road system, while Bordeaux, the great wine port on the Garonne, and Toulouse, the old capital of Languedoc, give the south its anchors. Marseille faces the Mediterranean, and Lyon dominates the Rhône valley. An inset places the Island of Corsica beside the mainland, a reminder that France had held it since 1768 and that Napoleon had been born at Ajaccio the following year. Hachures convey the Massif Central, the Alps and the Pyrenees as shaded masses of high ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA family with British and French branches, a collector of English atlases of the Napoleonic era, or a historian of the Peninsular War will find a handsome gift here, perhaps for an anniversary or a retirement. TheMapVault's Lapie map, also dated 1809, was drawn and engraved in Paris and shows the whole empire, while this Pinkerton sheet is the London view of France alone, on a larger sheet with fuller coloring. Teesdale's 1831 map is smaller and lighter, with outline color only. 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The atlas stayed in print until 1893, and this sheet comes from its earliest state, identifiable by the absence of page numbers outside the borders and by the larger Williams map of the world on a globular projection. The engraving is colored throughout, with a floral border typical of mid-century American atlases, and its two inset maps, Switzerland in cantons and the Island of Corsica, make it more than a plain outline of the French and Iberian coasts. At 1:6,500,000 it covers three western European countries as they stood in 1860, the year France received Nice and Savoy from the Kingdom of Sardinia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrance fills the upper part of the map, bordered by England to the north and by Spain along the Pyrenees to the south, with Spain occupying the center and lower sheet and Portugal along the western edge. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the southeast and gives the peninsula its shape. Spain in 1860 was ruled by Isabella II and had just fought a short war with Morocco, while Portugal was governed by the young King Pedro V and was modernizing its ports. Corsica sits in its own inset as the French island that had belonged to Genoa until 1768, and Switzerland is drawn canton by canton, a reminder of the federal state formed in 1848. Paris, Madrid and Lisbon were the three capitals that anchored the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn American collector of Mitchell atlases, a family with ties to Spain, Portugal or France, or a traveler who has walked the pilgrim road across the Pyrenees will find a particular gift here. Morse's 1856 map of France and Switzerland is a closer view of two countries, and Cram's 1883 map shows France alone, so this Mitchell sheet is the only one of the group that sets France beside its Iberian neighbors on a single page. Its first-edition, first-state status adds interest for anyone who tracks the changes in Mitchell's atlas over the years. 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Migeon directed the publication of this geological map of France for the Nouvel Atlas Illustré, Géographie Universelle, issued in Paris in 1892 by the Direction et Administration at 11 rue du Moulin-Vert, with L. E. Desbuissons credited among the atlas's makers. Charles Lacoste drew the sheet, Lecocq engraved it, Fontaine drew the waters and A. Bizet lettered it, and Fillatreau and Barbier made the small vignette view that decorates it. The color work is the real distinction: the atlas is hand-colored at a date when printed color was taking over, and here each rock type is given its own tint on a 1:3,700,000 sheet of 43 by 34 centimeters, with hachured relief and an inset of Corsica. It records France in 1892, under the Third Republic and three years after the Paris Exposition that raised the Eiffel Tower, when geology was a young science tied to mining and railway building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vignette shows the Grotte de Royat, at the spa town of Royat in the Auvergne, where mineral springs rise through the volcanic country around Clermont-Ferrand. Colors distinguish the granite and older rocks of the Massif Central and Brittany from the layered sedimentary basins that surround Paris and Aquitaine. The Alps and the Pyrenees, built of folded rock, rise along the eastern and southern frontiers, while the inset of Corsica shows the island's largely crystalline mountains. Parts of Germany appear along the northeastern edge because the sheet extends past the French border. 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Smith engraved this historical map of Gaul under the Romans for the Nouvel Atlas Illustré, Géographie Universelle, which J. Migeon directed and which was published in Paris in 1892 by the Direction et Administration, with Charles Lacoste drawing the sheet and A. Bizet lettering it. The map belongs to an atlas of sixty-six maps, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering, that was unusual for keeping hand coloring long after rivals had abandoned it, and its large sheet of 44 by 34 centimeters at 1:3,700,000 gives each Roman region its own tint, with hachured relief. An inset plan of Lutèce, the Roman Paris, and a vignette of the same city accompany the main map. It was drawn in 1892, when French schools and scholars were deeply interested in Gaul as the ancestral ground of the nation under the Third Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGaul passed into Roman hands through Julius Caesar's campaigns between 58 and 50 BC, and the map shows the regions into which Rome divided it. 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Shewey and Company of Chicago and Rushville, Indiana, with Benedict credited as engraver. The catalog identifies it as the first edition and the first mass-production world atlas Cram made, a run reissued in changing formats until 1952, which means this sheet comes from the very start of one of the most durable American atlas lines. At 31 by 26 centimeters and 1:4,400,000, the map uses outline or full color to separate the departments, shows relief by hachures, and gives longitude from both Greenwich and Washington, as American atlases of the period did. It was made in 1883, in the early years of the Third Republic, when Jules Ferry's laws had just made French primary schooling free and secular.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrance occupies the whole sheet, with Paris, Lyon and Marseille as the great centers named on it. 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The atlas was known for its range, with Murchison's geological map of England and Wales, Lubbock's star maps and plans of London and Paris among its sheets, and this France is a hand-colored steel engraving of 41 by 38 centimeters at 1:3,500,000, with each province given its own tint and the hills drawn in hachures. The catalog calls it a somewhat updated version of the 1865 issue, and it appeared two years after the fall of Napoleon III, in the early Third Republic proclaimed on 4 September 1870.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title says it plainly: this is France in provinces, the old divisions of Brittany, Normandy, Burgundy, Provence and their neighbors, which departments had replaced in 1790 but which never left the language or the memory. The English Channel, labeled La Manche, marks the northern edge, and the mountains, rivers, major cities and towns are drawn within the colored provinces. Paris had just endured a siege of four months in the winter of 1870 to 1871, followed by the Commune, while Lyon commanded the Rhône valley and its silk trade and Marseille remained the great Mediterranean port. By tinting provinces rather than departments, the map keeps alive a France of regional identity at the moment the nation was redefining itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA student of the Franco-Prussian War era, a family from Brittany or Provence, or a collector who values Stanford's English steel engraving will find a distinctive gift here. TheMapVault's 1865 edition of the same sheet is the earlier state, made under the Second Empire, while this 1872 version is the revision issued after the empire's fall; Tallis's 1851 map decorates its edges with vignettes, whereas this Stanford sheet relies on clean provincial color alone. 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Tanner of 177 Chesnut Street, Philadelphia, published this Gallia Antiqua in 1826 in An Atlas of Ancient Geography, sixteen maps selected from the most approved works to illustrate the ancient authors, sacred and profane, and sorted into the groups Geographia Sacra, Ecclesiastica and Antiqua. Tanner, the Philadelphia mapmaker best known for his maps of the United States, engraved the sheet himself, with the districts outlined in color tint, relief in modified hachures and the Latin names set against three scales, and the meridian runs from the Fortunate Isles, the Canaries. It measures 29 by 23 centimeters at 1:5,200,000, and it appeared in 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of American independence, when Gaul was studied in American schools as the ground of Caesar's campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe map labels the lands around Gaul, with Britannia to the north, Hispania to the south and Gallia Cisalpina over the Alps, and it names tribes such as the Helvetii and the Sequani. 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Burr, a New York cartographer born in 1803, drew this France in Departments for A New Universal Atlas, which D. S. Stone of New York published in 1835 after Burr's own copyright of 1832, with printing by Cammeyer and Clark. The catalog calls it the first edition, with no date on the title page and map copyrights from 1831 to 1835, and it records that Burr finished only eight of the 63 maps before becoming topographer to the Post Office, so Illman and Pilbrow completed the atlas. This sheet measures 32 by 28 centimeters at 1:3,700,000 and is colored by department, with a list of numbered departments beside the map. It shows France in 1835, under Louis-Philippe, the citizen king of the July Monarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sheet tints each department, so the lines of the 1790 reform that replaced the old provinces are the main subject, and the numbered list lets a reader find every one. 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G. Barbie du Bocage, A. Vuillemin, J. B. Charle, V. Levasseur, T. Duvotenay, H. Dufour and F. E. George, revised in 1852 by George. Barbie du Bocage was the son of J. D. Barbie du Bocage, the geographer linked to the well-known Voyage d'Anacharsis, and the sheet is in full hand-painted color with an ornamental border and an inset of Paris in 1789. It measures 32 by 24 centimeters at 1:5,500,000, and it was issued in 1852, the year Louis-Napoléon, president of the Republic, became Emperor Napoleon III.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe map shows France as it was before 1789, divided into the old provinces rather than the departments of the Revolution, each with its own color. Brittany, Normandy and Burgundy stand out among them as regions with strong identities, and Provence, Languedoc and Gascony run along the south. The inset of Paris in 1789 shows the city as it was when the Revolution began, a small capital inside its walls. 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Cornelis engraved the sheet, A. Bizet lettered it and Bréhier printed it, and it spreads across two pages in full color, 43 by 30 centimeters at 1:3,760,000, with hachured relief and supplements for the Île-de-France and Corsica. The catalog places the atlas in the tradition of Soulier, bound in quarter leather with a gilt spine, and with children's drawings on the backs of some maps, so it was clearly used in classrooms. The sheet dates from 1886, the year the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thirty-two governments of the title were the great military governorships of the old monarchy, and the map sets their names against the departments that had replaced them. Paris, Lyon and Marseille are marked, together with the Seine and the Rhône, and the Alps and the Pyrenees are drawn in hachures along the frontiers. 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Dufour. It is a color hypsometric and geological map across two pages, 43 by 31 centimeters at 1:3,760,000, with relief in gradient tints and spot heights, an inset of Corsica, a smaller France géologique and a cross-section of the earth's crust. The catalog says the atlas was printed and hand-painted in full color and used in schools, and this sheet belongs to its physical maps, which it calls sophisticated and economically informed. It dates from 1886, when geography and earth science sat at the center of Third Republic schooling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeights are the subject, so the colors step from lowlands to the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Massif Central and the Vosges, with spot heights marking summits. The Paris Basin, a wide bowl of sedimentary rock, shows as low ground around Paris, while the Rhône valley runs between the high Alps and the old uplands of the Massif Central. 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Lotter, a leading German mapmaker of the eighteenth century, married the daughter of Matthäus Seutter, took over Seutter's business in 1756 and kept Steinberger's credit and the French explanatory text when he reissued the design. The sheet shows France by its historical provinces in contemporary hand color, with the Channel, the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean named, and it celebrates the campaigns of Louis XIV with fortress plans and descriptive panels set into an elaborate baroque border. It shows the kingdom as Louis XIV left it, in a design first drawn in the 1690s and still sold around 1760, when his great-grandson Louis XV was on the throne.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe border carries the sieges and new works that made the map a celebration: Strasbourg, Philisbourg, Huningue, Fort Louis du Rhin, Haguenau, Longwy, Mons, Perpignan and Saarlouis each have their own notes. Most cluster along Flanders, Alsace and Roussillon, the frontiers that Vauban's system of fortifications defended and that France had secured by the later seventeenth century. Strasbourg, which Louis XIV took in 1681, anchors the Rhine frontier, and Perpignan marks the Roussillon frontier near the Mediterranean. A bold cartouche carries the French title beneath Ludovicus Magnus, and spellings such as Bourbonnois, Lyonnois and Gascongne keep the flavor of the late seventeenth century. The sheet reads as political propaganda presented as a geography lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA history teacher, a family from Alsace or Roussillon, or a collector of baroque cartography will find a conversation piece here, especially if the Sun King is a particular interest. 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Weigel, who lived from 1654 to 1725 and worked in Nuremberg, was an engraver, art dealer and publisher whose maps combined practical use with decoration, and he was involved in the Atlas scholasticus et itinerarius, a world atlas widely used in schools. The sheet is notable for its classical title cartouche with trophies and a medallion portrait, and the Roman groupings are each washed in color. It was issued in the early eighteenth century, when German scholars and schools were deeply interested in classical geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeigel divides the country into the Roman groupings: Gallia Belgica lies in the northeast, Gallia Lugdunensis across the center and west, Aquitania toward the southwest and Gallia Narbonensis, the Provincia, along the Mediterranean. The map extends beyond Gaul to Britannia and Hibernia at the top left, the Rhenus or Rhine as the frontier against Germania on the right, the Alpes to the southeast and part of Hispania at the lower left. 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Carey, an Irish-born printer and republican sympathizer who had met Benjamin Franklin and the Marquis de Lafayette in Paris, produced the map for his plan to publish an American edition of William Guthrie's A New System of Modern Geography, and his publishing helped the young United States reduce its reliance on London mapmakers. The sheet is hand-colored by department, with a table of the ten Metropolitan Circles beside the map and a key explaining the boundaries and symbols. It shows France in 1794, in the middle of the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sheet shows the departments created by the National Constituent Assembly, which dissolved the old provinces in favor of a rational grid, and it names departments such as Calvados, Finistère, Gironde and Haute-Garonne. The ten Metropolitan Circles in the table include the Circle of Paris, the Coasts of the Channel and the Coasts of the Mediterranean, and the symbols mark the seats of Metropolitans and Bishops, towns with a Tribunal of Justice and the principal places that gave their name to a district. Longitude is measured twice, from London along the upper margin and from a Philadelphia prime meridian along the lower, a quiet American declaration of independence. Behind the lines lies the Civil Constitution of the Clergy of July 1790, which tied the Church to the new departments and deeply divided the country, especially in the Vendée.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collector of American printing history, a family with roots in Bordeaux or the Vendée, or a student of the Revolution will find a distinctive gift in this map. 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The copper-engraved sheet is laid out like a mariner's chart, with two elaborate compass roses, a network of rhumb lines across the water, dense coastal names and soundings, and political regions in outline hand color. A large allegorical cartouche at lower right carries the title and the Danckerts imprint, and the bold engraving and updated coastal names drawn from Dutch hydrographic sources show the family's large-format style. It shows the Channel in 1690, the year of the naval battle off Beachy Head during the Nine Years' War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chart covers the Channel from Cornwall and South Wales across to Brittany, Normandy and Flanders, reaching north to the Thames estuary and south to the Loire basin. Plymouth, Portsmouth, the Solent and the Isle of Wight, the Downs, Calais, Dieppe, Le Havre, St-Malo and Brest are labeled as principal harbors, and the Scilly Isles and the Channel Islands are named. This was the route along which English and French fleets fought, with the battles of Beachy Head in 1690 and Barfleur and La Hougue in 1692. Dutch publishers such as Danckerts made charts like this for the merchants and shipping families who followed the war closely. The result is a view of the Channel as a stage of both trade and conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sailor, a family with roots in Brittany, Normandy or Cornwall, or a collector of maritime charts will find a seafaring gift here, and the chart suits a study or a home by the sea. TheMapVault's other France sheets show the land in provinces, departments or relief, whereas this 1690 Dutch chart shows the sea between France and England, with soundings and compass roses rather than towns. Its decorative style, with outline color and an allegorical cartouche, belongs to the Amsterdam school that also produced the 1622 Hondius map of France in the collection. 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Mortier was an Amsterdam publisher who issued French maps for the European market, and the catalog notes that this is one of the earliest obtainable postal maps of France and is based on a map of the same title by Jaillot. The sheet is valued for its dense practical information rather than for ornament, and every station along the roads is given its own note. It shows France around 1700, in the later reign of Louis XIV, when the posting system tied Paris to the frontier fortresses and the ports.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA postal map of this kind records the relay stations where couriers and travelers changed horses and the roads that joined them, and its notes for each station made it a working tool for anyone planning a journey. The French posts were organized as a royal service, with Paris as the hub of the system and the main roads running out from it toward the frontiers and the ports. Mortier published the sheet in Amsterdam, for a Dutch audience with commercial reasons to follow the roads of France. Because it is based on Jaillot's original, it shows the French system as the Dutch book trade sold it to Europe. The sheet therefore turns the country into a network of roads and relays rather than a patchwork of provinces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collector of postal history, a traveler who loves old road maps, or a family from along the old routes out of Paris will find an unusual gift here, perhaps for a postal historian. TheMapVault's other French maps of the same age show the country as provinces, with the 1622 Hondius and 1727 Seutter sheets set against decorative borders and coats of arms, whereas this one is a working map of roads and stations from about 1700. Where the Lotter sheet of about 1760 celebrates conquests, Mortier's records how people and letters actually moved. 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He was one of the most prominent geographers and engravers of his time, and one of his most successful ventures was reprinting Mercator's atlas, to which he added 36 maps. This map appeared in only four editions of Mercator's atlas and is therefore very rare, and this is the special printing that Hondius shipped to Tavernier in Paris for sale, as a box beside the scale reading Se vend aussi à Paris shows. The design is richly ornamented with a huge strapwork title cartouche, a coat of arms, sailing ships, a sea monster and a compass rose, and it shows France in 1622, while Louis XIII was fighting the Huguenot strongholds of the south.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title of the map promises that every archbishopric, bishopric, university and parlement is marked with its own sign, collated from the provincial descriptions that existed at the time. That makes it a map of authority as well as of geography: the parlements sat in cities such as Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Rouen, and the bishops and universities gave the kingdom its religious and learned structure. The Seine, the Loire, the Garonne and the Rhône are the great rivers that join the regions, and the sailing ships and the sea monster fill the Channel and the Atlantic. The Paris sales box shows a Dutch design made to be sold to French buyers. It records a kingdom still divided into provinces, in a style that was already becoming old-fashioned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collector of early Dutch cartography, a family with deep roots in Paris, or an admirer of Mercator's atlas will find a historically significant gift here. TheMapVault's Seutter map of 1727 is a baroque Augsburg France, and the Lotter sheet of about 1760 celebrates the conquests of Louis XIV, whereas this 1622 Hondius is more than a century older than the Seutter and was a Dutch printing made for sale in Paris itself. 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Montgomery Martin's Illustrated Atlas, the year Tallis issued his Illustrated World Atlas for the Great Exhibition. Tallis, who lived from 1817 to 1876, was one of the last great decorative mapmakers, and his maps are prized for their vignettes of local scenes and people, engraved by John Rapkin and later reissued by the London Printing and Publishing Company with the Tallis imprint left intact. This sheet shows France with Corsica, set among vignettes of the Bridge of Toulouse, the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Garden of the Palais Royale, the Harbor at Calais and two sets of costumes. It dates from 1851, when Louis-Napoléon was president of the Second Republic and the empire was a year from being declared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vignettes turn the map into a tour of France, and the Bridge of Toulouse gives the southwest its place beside the north. Toulouse stands on the Garonne and was the old capital of Languedoc, and the bridge view speaks for the long road between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The Palace of Fontainebleau and the Garden of the Palais Royale stand for royal and Parisian France, while the Harbor at Calais shows the port that faces England across the Channel. The two sets of costumes show how people in different regions dressed, so that the sheet records a country of local customs as well as departments. Corsica sits beside the mainland, and together the views present France as a land of bridges, palaces, harbors and regions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA traveler who has crossed the Garonne at Toulouse, a family from Corsica or the southwest, or a collector of Victorian pictorial atlases will find a lively gift here. TheMapVault lists the Tallis France of 1851 in more than one copy, and this one is chosen for the Toulouse bridge and the Corsica inset beside the mainland, whereas its plainer rivals such as Cram's 1883 map and the Stanford sheets of 1865 and 1872 carry no pictorial vignettes at all. The sheet is a showpiece in which the border views carry as much weight as the geography. 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Tallis, who lived from 1817 to 1876, began his London career with remarkable street views before issuing the Illustrated World Atlas for the Great Exhibition of 1851, one of the last series of decorative world maps ever produced. The maps were engraved by John Rapkin, and the surrounding vignettes show the Bridge of Toulouse, the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Garden of the Palais Royale, the Harbor at Calais and two sets of costumes, with Corsica included on the sheet. It dates from 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition in London and of Louis-Napoléon's coup in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Garden of the Palais Royale is the Paris vignette, and it recalls the arcaded garden beside the old royal palace in the heart of the capital, where the city's cafes and shops gathered. Next to it the Palace of Fontainebleau represents the royal châteaux of the Île-de-France, and the Harbor at Calais and the Bridge of Toulouse mark the north coast and the southwest. The two sets of costumes show the dress of different regions, a reminder that provincial identities survived the departments created in 1790. Corsica appears on the sheet beside the mainland, and the sheet ends up as a picture album of France with a map in the middle. Paris, the Seine and the Garden together make this the most Parisian of the Tallis vignette sets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Parisian, a visitor who has strolled the arcades of the Palais Royal, or a collector of Victorian decorative maps will find a handsome gift here, and the strong color suits a study or a hall. TheMapVault lists the Tallis France of 1851 in more than one copy, and this one is the full-color example, chosen for the Palais Royale garden at the heart of its vignettes, while Cram's 1883 map and the Stanford sheets of 1865 and 1872 have no vignettes of any kind. Tallis made it as a showpiece for the year of the Great Exhibition. 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Tallis, who lived from 1817 to 1876, published the Illustrated World Atlas for the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the maps were engraved by John Rapkin, with the Tallis imprint left intact when the London Printing and Publishing Company later reissued them. The sheet includes Corsica and is set among vignettes of the Bridge of Toulouse, the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Garden of the Palais Royale and the Harbor at Calais, together with two sets of costumes. It dates from 1851, when France was a republic that was about to become an empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two sets of costumes are the human subject of the sheet, showing regional dress at a time when a Breton, an Alsatian and a Provençal could still be told apart by what they wore. Around them the vignettes record the monuments of a tourist's France: the Bridge of Toulouse, the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Garden of the Palais Royale and the Harbor at Calais. Corsica is on the sheet beside the mainland, so the whole of French territory is gathered in one view. The costume figures make the map social as well as geographical, since they show the people of the provinces that the departments had replaced. This is why costume maps like Tallis's were popular with Victorian readers who wanted to see how other nations lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA family proud of its Breton, Alsatian or Provençal roots, a student of regional costume, or a collector of Victorian pictorial atlases will find a charming gift here. TheMapVault lists the Tallis France of 1851 in more than one copy, and this one is chosen for the costume figures that give the sheet its human side, whereas Cram's 1883 map and the Stanford sheets of 1865 and 1872 are plain geography with no figures at all. Tallis made this full-color example as a showpiece. 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Faden was Geographer to the King and one of the leading London map publishers of his day, and the catalog describes this sheet as a decorative map of France colored by its modern departments. The map was made to record the settlement imposed on France after Waterloo, and it is engraved and colored in the polished style of the Georgian map trade. It shows France in 1816, when the restored Bourbon king, Louis XVIII, ruled a country reduced to roughly its borders of 1790 and occupied by allied armies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe treaty of November 1815 was the second Treaty of Paris, signed after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, and it drew France's frontiers close to those of 1790 rather than the larger borders of the Empire. France paid an indemnity of 700 million francs and accepted an allied army of occupation for up to five years. The departments, which the map colors one by one, were the Revolution's administrative gift, and the restored monarchy kept them. Paris on the Seine was the capital to which the Bourbons returned, Lyon led the silk trade, Marseille was the Mediterranean port, and Bordeaux, on the Garonne, shipped the wine for which its region was known. By coloring the departments and fixing the new limits, the sheet pairs the administrative France of the Revolution with the diplomatic France of the Restoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA student of the Napoleonic wars, a family with roots in Alsace, Lorraine or Savoy, or a collector of Georgian English cartography will find a historic gift here. TheMapVault's Burr map of 1835 shows France by department a generation later, and its 1812 Meissas and Michelot sheet shows the French Empire at its height, whereas this 1816 Faden is the map of the settlement that ended that empire. Few maps date the end of the Napoleonic age as precisely as one that names the treaty in its title. 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Henricus was a son of the great Jodocus Hondius and carried on the family firm, which reissued Mercator's atlas, and the catalog describes the map as finely engraved and embellished. Sailing ships, sea monsters and an elaborate compass rose fill the sea, the royal armorial sits at the upper right, and a title cartouche in the opposite corner shows the rich bounty of the land. It shows France around 1631, under Louis XIII and his chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ships, the sea monsters and the compass rose belong to the baroque decoration that Dutch publishers gave their sea margins, and the armorial and the cartouche balance the two upper and lower corners. The kingdom itself is drawn as a land of provinces, with the Seine, the Loire, the Garonne and the Rhône tying the regions together. 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The sheet carries two large views, one of the Quai des Salinières and one from the Quai des Chartrons, and it is a plan of the river port with its quays and its merchants' quarter. The Society, founded in London in 1826, had issued cheap maps for education, and its plans remained in print for decades after they were first engraved. It shows Bordeaux in 1870, the year the Franco-Prussian War began and the year that the government of national defense later withdrew to the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two views show the Garonne waterfront from two angles, the Quai des Salinières and the Quai des Chartrons, and the plan around them is the street grid of a city that had grown since the 1830s. By 1870 the railway joined Bordeaux to Paris, and the Gare Saint-Jean had opened in 1855, so the river port was no longer only a river port. In February 1871 the National Assembly met in Bordeaux to decide on peace, which gives an 1870 plan of the city an unusual historical weight. 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The Society, founded in London in 1826, produced inexpensive maps to encourage broad use in education, and its city plans are the ones that collectors seek for their detail. The sheet is a later issue in the series, a generation after the Society's first plan of the city. It shows Marseille in 1870, a Mediterranean port that had been transformed by the opening of the Suez Canal the year before, and the year of the Franco-Prussian War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA city plan of this date covers a Marseille that had outgrown its old harbor, the Old Port, which Greek settlers had used since the founding of Massilia. In the decades before 1870 the city had added new docks to the north of the old harbor, a broad new street cut through the old town, and the basilica of Notre-Dame de la Garde on the hill above, consecrated in 1864. 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Derveaux, born in Paris in 1914 and active until his death in 2010, was an artist who mastered drawing, wood engraving and copper engraving, and he issued more than 50 maps, the most famous of them showing the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. His maps imitate the style of Homann and Blaeu while adding modern thematic content, and this one measures 35.5 by 47.6 centimeters at 1:2,800,000. It shows France in 1963, the year de Gaulle and Adenauer signed the Élysée Treaty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe map covers France from the English Channel and Belgium to the Mediterranean and from the Bay of Biscay to Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Cheeses are labeled across the country, and the symbols distinguish ewe's milk, in blue, goat's milk, in yellow, and cow's milk, in brown, while the wine regions are shaded and named, including Muscadet, the Loire Valley, the Crus du Jura, the Vignobles du Languedoc, Burgundy and Bordeaux. 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