Historical Maps

30x23 cm

FRANCE en 1789
Géographie moderne.
Gravé par Thierry. rue des Mathurins S.^t Jacques N.^o 1.

Steel engraving by Louis-Michel Thierry (fl.1810-1840) published in Geographie Moderne...C. Malte-Brun, Paris, 1839.

Conrad Malte-Brun (1775-1826) Born in Denmark, he became a political activist, was exiled in 1799 and moved to France beginning a carreer in geography and cartography and with French geographer Edme Mentelle produced Geographie mathematique, physique et Politique...1803-1812. He became known as one of the leading French cartographers of his time and died in Paris in 1826 while drafting the final version of his major 8 volume work Precis de Geographie Universelle ou Description de Toutes les parties du Monde Paris 1810-1829. His son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (1816-1889) continued the business publishing maps into the mid 1880's.
Good clean map in original hand colour showing France divided into provinces in 1789.