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Our selection now spreads over seven pages, and includes fourteen
maps and over seventy views.
We’ve expanded our map range to include three fine nineteenth-century
town plans originally published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge—Bordeaux,
Marseilles and Toulon—and, also from SDUK originals, maps of the Environs
of Paris and France in Provinces. As well as our splendid eighteenth century town
plans of Bethune, Douai and Lille we now have Dunkirk and Toulon. Taken from Rapin’s
History of England, these are truly magnificent maps, showing the towns as
they were during the War of the Spanish Succession, with their intricate Vauban-designed
fortifications depicted in exquisite detail.
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Our views include a wide selection by Thomas Allom, taken from
France Illustrated, a collection published by Fisher, Son & Co. of
London and Paris in 1840. Amongst other notable artists represented are John Duffield
Harding, Clarkson Stanfield, and Eugène Lami. Their work has have left
us a vivid pictorial record of France as as it was in the first half of the nineteenth
century, a delight to the eye and an invaluable historical record. Subjects are
wide-ranging: cathedrals and palaces, castles, townscapes, villages, and the grandeur
of the Alps and Pyrenées.
Unless otherwise stated, our maps are reproduced on heavyweight
A3 Super paper (13"x19"/329mm x 483mm), and views on A4, with an approximate
image size of 7"x5" (175mm x 125mm).
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