Strasbourg and the country west in Alsace; one of the sheets of Cassini's Map of France, 1750

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Identifier: id189559

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Scope and Contents

(Wright French Map No. 15)

Carte de France levee par ordre du Roy. No. 162

[Map of France by order of the King of France Sheet 162 of 182 (Strasbourg)]

Sheet 162 of the Cassini map of France

Rivers, towns, roads shown. Relief shown by simple hachures.

Cesar-Francois Cassini - geographer

Chez Dezauche, Paris - publisher

copper engraving, hand-colored, linen backed folding map of 18 sheets

58 cm x 91 cm

1 : 86,400

Note in lower right corner by J. W. Wright indicates the exact scale of the map to be 1 : 82,285.

Dates

Creation: 1750

Creator

From the Collection: Wright, John Womack, 1876-1953 (Collector, Person)
From the Collection: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Saint Helene, Placide de (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Senex, John, d. 1740 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702 (Cartographer, Person)

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