France.

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Steel engraving, hand colored in outline and wash. A decorative antique map of France with many details. We do find engraved place names, rivers, lakes, islands and mountains. The map is decorated with six finely hand colored engraved vignette city views: the bridge of Toulouse, the Palace of Fontainebleau, Calais Harbour and the garden of the Palais Royal. The actual map was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin. The illustrations were engraved by various artists: R. Radclyffe, W. Lacy, J. Rogers, J. H. Kernot, J. B. Allen, T. Fleming, H. Winkles, R. Baker after drawings by H. Warren, H. Winkles and H. Wray.