Search Results: France from Bryars and Bryars

Amsterdam, 1630. Copper engraving, 14 x 18.3 cms, later hand-colour, Dutch text on verso. Anjou, from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among “the better circumstanced people - potential buyers of atlases”. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 197. Map

Cologne, c. 1575. Copper engraving, 34.5 x 42.5 cms. Original hand colour, minor offsetting, slight marginal soiling, German text to verso. Two French town plans after Belleforest on one sheet: Autun in Burgundy and Nevers in Bourgogne. Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cms, black and white, blank verso. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Barcelonette became French after the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht and has strong links with Latin America. Map

Amsterdam, 1630. Copper engraving, 15 x 18.3 cms, later hand-colour, Dutch text on verso. Mercator's Pays Boulonnais and Guînes from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among “the better circumstanced people - potential buyers of atlases”. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Me 197. Map

The Hague, 1697. Copper engraving, 46.5 x 58.5 cm, black and white, upper margin cut close with very light waterstaining, blank verso. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with Blaeu’s imprint erased) by Adriaan Moetjens in 1697. Chambéry, historically the capital of the Savoy region. Koeman Bl 80 Map

Paris, 1813. Large engraved map of Europe and the First French Empire in 6 sheets, each approx 66.5 x 94 cm (199.5 x 188 cm in total) each dissected into 21 panels and laid on linen, black and white, engraved by E. Collin; each sheet carries pasted labels of Charles Picquet, Paris, with a miniature index map, coloured to identify the relevant sheet; the sheets are also identified by a vellum tab with the title "Carte de la France" and a number from 1 to 6. They are housed within the original publisher’s book-form slipcase, lined with duck-egg blue paper and bound in red straight-grained quarter morocco, gilt-ruled with gilt ornaments and title lettered direct to spine, and with marbled edges. Slight rubbing to slipcase, and the top edge is detached, possibly for ease of removing the maps. Though described in the title as a road map of France, more accurately it reflects the territorial extent and ambitions of Napoleon’s French Empire, stretching to the Confederation of the Rhine… Read More

Paris, Jean Lattré: ,, 1785. Folding map, 68 x 102.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, dissected into 28 panels and laid on linen, folding into vellum slipcase, lacking its base. Decorative cartouche to the lower right, with festoons of flowers and fruits and surrounded by an anchor, barrels and a basket of dead waterfowl, with a ship behind. An earlier edition was published in 1777; Worldcat locates only the British Library copy of this version with a revised 1785 date. OCLC: 1063259047 Map

Rouen, E. Renault, c. 1900. Souvenir handkerchief printed on fine linen, 67.5 x 73 cm, engraved by A. Buquet, printed in black and red, some spotting, blank verso; a military service number has been embroidered in red on the verso. It is in the same format as the series of thirteen 'mouchoirs militaire d'instructions' patented by the commandant of the Rouen garrison, Pierre Perrinon, in 1875. These instructional handkerchiefs carried basic information about drill, kit, weapons handling, first aid for the wounded and other essential military topics in a durable and convenient format. Our map does not seem to be part of the numbered series, but is produced by the same Rouen publisher and firm of designers (l'atelier Buquet was already known for its illustrated handkerchieves) and details the structure of the French army beneath the map. After defeat in the Franco-Prussian War the Third Republic re-introduced widespread conscription, and the handkerchiefs became a useful… Read More

Genoa: Yves Gravier, 1804. Copper engraving, 14 x 20 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Sète in southern France. Map

Antwerp: Patria N.V.; the Hague, 1939-40. Map of the Franco-German frontier, sheet size 73 x 55 cm, printed in colours, illustrated with photographs showing the formidable obstacles faced by either side, Dutch text, blank verso. Published during the Phoney War, when Belgium and the Netherlands had both proclaimed their neutrality and most observers anticipated a drawn out conflict on the continent as there had been between 1914-18. British newspapers began publishing new ‘war maps of the Western Front’. The costly chain of French fortifications known as the Maginot Line did indeed deter a frontal assault, as during the Blitzkrieg of May 1940 the German forces swept through the neutral Low Countries, bypassing it altogether. Worldcat locates half a dozen examples of this map in Dutch institutions, giving three OCLC numbers: 71569063, 192112338 and 68942430. Map

Amsterdam, c. 1700. Copper engraving, 38 x 51 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Part of the Pays Boulonnais in northern France. Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age, when the United Provinces still led Europe in the field map-making. Together they purchased the copper printing plates of the famous Janssonius firm and reissued them under their own imprint. Map

Paris, 1866. Steel engraving, engraved area 45 x 28 cms, original hand-colour, elaborate border showing regional costume, produce and local historical figures, blank verso. From an edition of Levasseur’s ‘Atlas National Illustré’. Map

Paris, 1866. Steel engraving, engraved area 30 x 43 cms, original hand-colour, elaborate border showing regional costume, produce and local historical figures, blank verso. From an edition of Levasseur’s ‘Atlas National Illustré’. Map

Paris, 1866. Steel engraving, engraved area 44.5 x 28 cms, original hand-colour, elaborate border showing regional costume, produce and local historical figures, closed tear in lower margin, blank verso. From an edition of Levasseur’s ‘Atlas National Illustré’. Map

Paris, 1866. Steel engraving, engraved area 29 x 43 cms, original hand-colour, elaborate border showing regional costume, produce and local historical figures - dominated here by Napoleon; trivial marginal spotting, blank verso. From an edition of Levasseur’s ‘Atlas National Illustré’. Map

Paris, 1866. Steel engraving, engraved area 30.5 x 43 cms, original hand-colour, elaborate border showing regional costume, produce and local historical figures, blank verso. From an edition of Levasseur’s ‘Atlas National Illustré’. Map

Paris, 1866. Steel engraving, engraved area 30.5 x 43 cms, original hand-colour, elaborate border showing regional costume, produce and local historical figures, blank verso. From an edition of Levasseur’s ‘Atlas National Illustré’. Map

Paris, 1866. Steel engraving, engraved area 29 x 43 cm, original hand-colour, elaborate border showing regional costume, produce and local historical figures - dominated here by Napoleon; trivial marginal spotting, blank verso. From an edition of Levasseur’s ‘Atlas National Illustré’. Map

Cologne, c. 1581. Copper engraving, 33 x 40 cms, fine original hand colour, a couple of trivial spots, German text to verso. Plan of Douai in northen France. Map

Paris, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 50 x 63 cm, original hand colour in outline, a couple of horizonatl creases in right hand part of the map, blank verso. A later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s road map of Italy, showing the Venetian Republic, Papal States, Kingdom of Naples etc. The original date (1753) and privilege have been burnished from the plate. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 116. Map