Identity area
Reference code
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/22
Title
Algeria
Date(s)
- 1700 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
4 maps: black and white; engraving; various sizes on 63 x 51 cm sheet
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Scope and content
'Plans des Villes & Places importantes qui sont dans la Carte de d'Afrique avec leurs Fortifications. Levez par Mr. de Vauban premier Ingenieur, & Lieutenant General des Armées du Roy de France 1700.'
- 'Plan de Tripoly en Barbarie'; 28.9 x 22.4 cm
- 'Le Port d'Alger'; 27.4 x 20.1 cm
- 'Plan des vieilles et nouvelles Fortifications de Malthe, situées dans l'Isle du mème nom'; 27.6 x 21.7 cm
- 'L'Isle de Malthe [...]'; 27.4 x 20.9 cm
Anon. [Sébastien Le Prestre Marquis de Vauban (1633-1707)]
Scale: 1 inch to 4 Italian miles
[Probably a different edition of a map with same title but different year (1702) and dimensions, which was included in Nicolas de Fer, Atlas Royal [...] (Paris, 1699- [1702]) (Pastoreau, Mireille, Les Atlas Française XVIe-XVIIe Siècles (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1984) p.191, Fer IIIc)]
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No access restrictions.
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Language of material
- French