Map Collection

Michel and Desnos 1765

private collection:-	Road map, hand coloured engraving, Paris to Normandy, Flanders and London, by Mr Michel, published by Sr Desnos, Rue St Jacques, Paris, France, 1765.
	Plate 10 has routes from Paris to Normandy and Flanders, and three routes to London - from Calais to Dover then through Canterbury, and Dartford to London; Dieppe to Newhaven, thence London; and Cherbourg to Portsmouth, then through Cosham, and Petersfield, Hampshire, then Guildford and Kingston on Thames, Surrey, to London.
map feature:-	title cartouche & rhumb lines & lat and long scales & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & relief & hill hachuring (?) & woods & forests & settlements & roads & itineraries & shipping routes
inscription:-	printed -on- barocque cartouche, upper left Xe. Flle. / L'INDICATEUR FIDE[grave]LE / du Voyageur Franc[cedila]ois. / ROUTES des Provinces de Normandie, / Boulon~ois. Partie de la Flandres et Pi- / cardie, et Route de Paris a[grave] Londres, / sc[cedila]avoir par Dieppe et Calis &c. / Par Mr. Michel, / Inge[acute]nieur - Ge[acute]ographe du Roy, / a[grave] l'Observatoire Royal. / a[grave] Paris, chez le Sr. Desnos, Ingr. Ge[acute]og. / pour les Globes et Sphe[grave]res, rue St. / Jacques, au Globe.
dimension:-	wxh, sheet = 34x50.5cm
	wxh, plate = 315x472mm
	wxh, map = 309x320mm
	Map Group -- Michel and Desnos 1765 -- with Research Notes
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	MN: 23.8.2003

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