£25 Malte-Brun
1839 Malte-Brun Malte-Brun Ref: 2519g
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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.