Whole of France

45x32 cm

FRANCE
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.

Inset maps of the environs of Paris and Corsica. Hand coloured showing the French departments.
Some marking to borders and lower part of the map.