Departement de la MancheSingle sheet. Hand coloured  engraving. Scale: 1:86,400. Includes Cherbourg. Decorated with depiction of ships in a storm. The map is linen backed and segmented for folding into a slip case.
<p>This is one of the 182 sheets of Cassini's map of France, stamped 1 P.al [Prairial] An 8 (22 May 1800). The sheets are contained in nine leather slip-cases in a mahogany campaign chest which has a silver plaque engraved: Cassini's Map of France taken from the Field of Waterloo by Col. Henry Percy Aide-de-camp to Wellington.<br></p>
Cas03(93) Departement de la Manche
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Aldring; Jacques Dominique Cassini</div>
1789; 1758
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