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MapLe royaume de France. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Jaillot, Alexis Hubert - Sanson, Guillaume
- Date: 1724-01-01
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MapHuitieme plan de Paris divisé en ses vingts quartiers "Pour servir au Traité de la police ... page 17." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Fer, Nicolas De - La Mare, Nicolas De
- Date: 1705-01-01
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MapJeu géographique de la République Française : présenté à la Convention Nationale Scales vary. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Consists of maps of the departments of France in a spiral arrangement designed as a game. Includes text of game rules and indexed table of administrative divisions. Insets: Isle St. Domingue.--Comtat Venessain avant sa réunion à la France.--La France divisiée en LXXXIII départemen[t]s avec les chefs-lieux. Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
- Contributor: Mauborgne, J. N. - Basset (Firm)
- Date: 1795-01-01
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MapPlan for the Improvement and Beautification of the City of Paris, in Accordance with the Designs Already Outlined by the Government.
Projet d'utilité et d'embellissement pour la ville de Paris qui s'acorde avec les projets déjà arretés par le gouvernement Charles de Wailly (1730-98) was a French architect who is known today for the buildings he designed, rather than for his plans for urban redevelopment. The work he carried out as an urban planner was limited to the environs of the Paris Opera and the new Port-Vendres, in Roussillon. De Wailly nevertheless had a great many ideas for urban redevelopment that never advanced beyond...- Contributor: Wailly, Charles De
- Date: 1789-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapCarte de France Relief shown by hachures. Title from sheets no. 1 and no. 6. Publication taken over by Dépôt de la guerre in 1793. Publication information and dates from Pelletier's Cartes des Cassini, 2002. Engravers named on some sheets: C. Aldring, Aubin, J.A. Aveline, Beauvais, Bourgoin, R. Brunet, N. Chalmandrier, Chambon, Desbruslins, B. Desfontaines, Dupain-Triel fils, Durand, Foin, Le Roy le ainé, Le Roy le jeune,...
- Contributor: Dépôt De La Guerre (France) - Société De La Carte De France - Andriveau-Goujon, J. - Cassini, César-François
- Date: 1756
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MapMap of French Guyana and of the Island of Cayenne.
Carte de la Guyane françoise et l'isle de Cayenne This map of French Guyana and the island of Cayenne is by Jacques Bellin (1703-72), a prolific cartographer attached to the French Marine Office. It reflects the careful mapping of bays, seas, and harbors that characterized 18th-century French naval cartography. In addition to the detailed information about the coast, Bellin's map includes notes about the interior of this part of South America, much of...- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas
- Date: 1763-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of the Western Ocean and Part of Northern America Drawn up to Record the Travels in 1720 of Father Charlevoix of the Society of Jesus in Canada, Louisiana and Saint-Domingue.
Carte de l'océan occidental et partie de l'Amérique septentrionale dressée pour l'intelligence du journal du voyage que le R.P. de Charlevoix de la Compagnie de Jesus a fait en 1720 au Canada, à la Louisiane & à St Domingue Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix was a French Jesuit priest who made a voyage to America in 1720-22. He had already taught in Quebec in 1705-9 and then was recalled to France. He departed Rochefort for New France on July 2, 1720, and arrived in Quebec on September 23 of that year. From there, he traveled to Montreal, Ontario, Niagara Falls, and as far as Lake...- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas - Desbrulins, F.
- Date: 1744-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapParis, ses fauxbourgs et ses environs : où se trouve le détail des villages, châteaux, gands chemins pavez, et autres, des hauteurs, bois, vignes, terres, et prez, levez géometriquement Includes decorative frame. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy on untrimmed sheets, with plate marks visible. Stamped on verso of all sheets: 6386.
- Contributor: Roussel
- Date: 1731-01-01
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MapGeographical Chart of the Valleys of Andorra.
Carte Geographique De La Vallée D'Andorra The Consell General de les Valls (General Council of the Valleys, the elected assembly of Andorra) commissioned the geographic engineer to the king of France to create this map of the Valleys of Andorra, taking advantage of his presence in Andorra while on a work assignment for the Carte générale de la France (General map of France). The latter was a project then coordinated...- Contributor: Lengelée, Nicolas - Andorra. General Council of the Valleys
- Date: 1777-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapNouvelle carte qui comprend les principaux triangles qui servent de fondement à la description géométrique de la France Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. Includes table of principal towns and points of interest with coordinates and distances from the Paris observatory. LC copy imperfect: fold lined, separated along central fold, with small triangular loss at central bottom. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Aubin - Heulland, Guillaume D - Cassini, César-François - Maraldi, J. D. (Jean Dominique)
- Date: 1744-01-01
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MapGuiana and Caribana.
Guiana, verdeelt in Guiana en Caribana This map of part of the northern coast of South America is a Dutch version of a map originally produced around 1650 by Nicolas Sanson (1600--1667), royal geographer to Kings Louis XIII and XIV, and commonly known as the father of French cartography. Numerous editions copied from Sanson were printed in the early 18th century. The map covers the region from the island of...- Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1700-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapAtlas maritime, ou, Cartes reduites de toutes les côtes de France, avec les cartes particulieres des isles voisines les plus considerables, suivies des plans des principales villes maritimes de ce royaume
Atlas maritime | Cartes reduites de toutes les côtes de France Engraved throughout. Title page. and maps hand-colored; folded maps of Paris and Versailles inserted. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1653 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy: Imperfect: p. [3]-[4] (dedication to the King) wanting. LC copy: Provenance: Bookplate of Lancelot Charles Lee in original red morocco binding. LAC knj 2019-07-02 update (1 card) LAC...- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Lattré, Jean - Bonne, Rigobert - Lee, Lancelot Charles
- Date: 1762
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