LA COULDRE LA BRETONNIERE, Louis-Bon-Jean de. Departments of - Lot 178

LA COULDRE LA BRETONNIERE, Louis-Bon-Jean de. Departments of Manche and Ille et Vilaine 1792, year I of the Republic. On plans surveyed in 1777. Paris, 1792. Black and white. Wrinkled along the central fold. Pale wetness. Margins reinforced. 862 x 585 mm. With Pierre-François-André Méchain, both authors of a map entitled: "Côtes de France". "Department of Manche and Ille et Vilaine 1792, year I of the Republic. On plans surveyed in 1777. If this map seen from the sea has a great interest in its whole, west coast of the Channel and Channel Islands, let us study in particular the northern region of Ille-et-Vilaine: title at the bottom in the left corner; stamp of the Dépôt de la Marine; selling price out of the frame at the bottom right: three pounds; important toponymy of all the coast; seven guardhouses for the department of Manche; none for that of Ille-et-Vilaine; six batteries for the island of Jersey; localization of the oyster beds. § Copy reproduced in "Anciennes Cartes Marines de la Bretagne 1580-1800 - C. Gaudillat, Anciennes Cartes Marines de la Bretagne 1580-1800, Pl. N°72.