Napoleonic Road Map of France & The First French Empire Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 22.8 cm 35 x 50 cm

35 x 50 cm

Underground maps after Beck

numbered in an old hand

and a large number of maps were added for his first edition of 1606

print code G1608/100

Napoleonic Road Map of France & The First French Empire Printed Area Measurement_15.5 x 22.8 cm 35 x 50 cmCarte Routire de la France dresse par ordre de Monsieur le Directeur Gnral des Ponts et Chausses Though described in the title as a road map of France, more accurately it reflects the territorial extent and ambitions of Napoleons French Empire, stretching to the Confederation of the Rhine and the Duchy of Warsaw in the east and Madrid and Rome in the south; the former still at this juncture nominally the seat of Napoleons brother Joseph, the latter