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Antique Map of France by Wyld (1854)

$ 906.21

Availability: in stock

Condition : Good, given age. Original middle fold as issued. Small tear in top left margin. Right margin a bit browned. Horizontal crease. Contemporary hand coloring. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Date : 1854
Overall size : 72 x 58.5 cm.
Image size : 62 x 53.2 cm.


Description: Antique map titled 'The Kingdom of France, describing the new limits according to the treaty of Paris. (1815)'. Large map of France. From James Wyld's 'A New General Atlas of Modern Geography.', published by James Wyld. Geographer to Her Majesty Charing Cross East. 1854.

Artists and Engravers: Cartographer: James Wyld. James Wyld (1812-1887) was a British publisher and cartographer. His greatest geographical achievement was Wyld's Great Globe, exhibited in Leicester Square between 1851 and 1862. The globe, sixty feet high and lighted with gas, was at that point the largest ever constructed. He was geographer to Queen Victoria and H.R.H. Prince Albert.