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Carte de France / levée par ordre du roy.
Cassini, César-François, 1714-1784.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Paris : Société de la carte de France], 1756-[1818]
NOTES
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, J. Séguin.
Sheet no. 160 was never published, but its projected coverage was included in some states of sheet 131.
Most sheets include both a sheet number in the upper right or middle margin and a number in the upper left indicating the order of publication, e.g. no. 3, feuille 11.
LC scanned copy is LC copy 2 from the Hauslab-Liechtenstein collection. This is a complete set, hand colored, on uncut sheets of heavy paper.
LC copy includes 2 different states of sheets 5, 6, 41, 43, 77, 78, 109 (feuille 68), 110, 113, 141 (feuille 73), 142, 161, and 162.
LC copy includes 2 copies of sheets 10 and 78 (1 copy of 1 state, 2 copies of the other).
LC copy includes some sheets mounted in sections on cloth backing.
LC copy imperfect: lacking sheets 1, 7, 8, 24-28, 60-64, 93-98, 102-105, 125-130, 167, 170-72.
Scale [1:86,400].
SUBJECTS
France--Maps--Early works to 1800.
France.
RELATED NAMES
Andriveau-Goujon, J.
Société de la carte de France.
Dépôt de la guerre (France)
MEDIUM
175 maps on 182 sheets ; sheets 65 x 95 cm. or smaller.
CALL NUMBER
G5830 s86 .C3 Vault
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
DIGITAL ID
(Copy 2) g5830m ghl00001 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5830m.ghl00001
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