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CORSICA - LE ROUGE, GORRGES-LOUIS (1712-1778).
Carte militaire de l'Isle de Corse. Paris: Le Rouge, 1768. Hand-coloured engraved wallmap of Corsica, 640 x 1255mm., on three sheets joined, with full margins.
A VERY RARE AND DETAILED WALL MAP OF CORSICA. Insets containing the Legende for the military posts as well as plans of the ports of Bastia, Calvi, Saint Florens and the Isle Rousse. Le Rouge was a military engineer and cartographer, active from about 1740 to 1780, who produced many attractive works including plans of fortifications, military campaigns, town plans and sea charts often in multi-sheet form; together with three other 18th century hand-coloured maps of Corsica, comprising two editions of the Insulae Corsicae by Homann Heirs dated 1732 and 1735; and a manuscript copy of Ottens Nouvelle Carte de l'Isle de Corse...par Philippe Erneste Colson, [c.1756] ink and wash on paper, 560 x 600mm; and the Isle de Corse by T.C.Lotter. (5)
Carte militaire de l'Isle de Corse. Paris: Le Rouge, 1768. Hand-coloured engraved wallmap of Corsica, 640 x 1255mm., on three sheets joined, with full margins.
A VERY RARE AND DETAILED WALL MAP OF CORSICA. Insets containing the Legende for the military posts as well as plans of the ports of Bastia, Calvi, Saint Florens and the Isle Rousse. Le Rouge was a military engineer and cartographer, active from about 1740 to 1780, who produced many attractive works including plans of fortifications, military campaigns, town plans and sea charts often in multi-sheet form; together with three other 18th century hand-coloured maps of Corsica, comprising two editions of the Insulae Corsicae by Homann Heirs dated 1732 and 1735; and a manuscript copy of Ottens Nouvelle Carte de l'Isle de Corse...par Philippe Erneste Colson, [c.1756] ink and wash on paper, 560 x 600mm; and the Isle de Corse by T.C.Lotter. (5)
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