FRANCE - CASSINI DE THURY, CÉSAR-FRANÇOIS (1714-1784).
FRANCE - CASSINI DE THURY, CÉSAR-FRANÇOIS (1714-1784). Carte Général de La France. Paris: Imprimerie du Roi, 1756- c. 1764. 71 engraved map sheets of France, (of 182 sheets in total), each 600 x 900mm. (Some browning and minor tearing to some sheets.) Unbound in an old portfolio. A selection of sheets for Northern France from Cassini's monumental survey. It was the first general topographic map of an entire country made from triangulated surveys. The first sheet, of Paris and environs (present here), went on sale on 15 August, 1756. Cassini consistently produced new sheets until his death, when the project was taken up by his son Jean Dominique. Delayed by the Revolution, the final sheets were not printed until 1815. The present map sheets almost all date from Cassini's early issues, from the late 1750s to early 1760s, and cover the great majority of northern France. The Carte de Cassini served as the genesis of the modern ordinance survey, and its accuracy and scope was not super-ceded until the completion of the Etat-Major in 1880. Included here are sheets 1-12 (missing 5&11); 21-29; 41-50; 60-62; 77-87; 93&95; 109-118, 125-127; 141-148; and maps 161, 163, 165, 171, 174&175.
FRANCE - CASSINI DE THURY, CÉSAR-FRANÇOIS (1714-1784).
FRANCE - CASSINI DE THURY, CÉSAR-FRANÇOIS (1714-1784). Carte Général de La France. Paris: Imprimerie du Roi, 1756- c. 1764. 71 engraved map sheets of France, (of 182 sheets in total), each 600 x 900mm. (Some browning and minor tearing to some sheets.) Unbound in an old portfolio. A selection of sheets for Northern France from Cassini's monumental survey. It was the first general topographic map of an entire country made from triangulated surveys. The first sheet, of Paris and environs (present here), went on sale on 15 August, 1756. Cassini consistently produced new sheets until his death, when the project was taken up by his son Jean Dominique. Delayed by the Revolution, the final sheets were not printed until 1815. The present map sheets almost all date from Cassini's early issues, from the late 1750s to early 1760s, and cover the great majority of northern France. The Carte de Cassini served as the genesis of the modern ordinance survey, and its accuracy and scope was not super-ceded until the completion of the Etat-Major in 1880. Included here are sheets 1-12 (missing 5&11); 21-29; 41-50; 60-62; 77-87; 93&95; 109-118, 125-127; 141-148; and maps 161, 163, 165, 171, 174&175.
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