[CARTOGRAPHY]. [ROUSSEL]. [PYRENEES]. ROUSSILLON]. - Lot 223

[CARTOGRAPHY]. [ROUSSEL]. [PYRENEES]. ROUSSILLON]. Lower left part (two leaves of eight) of the Carte générale des Monts Pyrénees, et partie des royaumes de France et d'Espagne/by Sr. Roussel; J.B. Delahaye scrip.; A. Coquart fecit. France, ca. 1730. Two leaves (complete map in eight leaves) of this rare map of the Pyrenees, with reversed orientation, covering here the Roussillon and part of Catalonia. Monumental map on strong paper, with full margins. Canvas map (24 sections of maps laminated). On the back, laminated label: "Goujon, Colleur et Marchand de cartes Geographiques, Rue de Bacq n. 6, Paris" and ink inscription: "Pyrénées. Perpignan"; lower left corner: "J.B. Delahaye scrip. [DELAHAYE (Jean-Baptiste-Henri (died c. 1755)]. Map surrounded by a framing border on two sides only. Dimensions: 595 x 985 mm. The Roussel map is a map of the entire Pyrenees, commissioned by the Regent for military purposes, surveyed between 1716 and 1719 by Roussel, king's engineer, and La Blottière, geographer engineer, and engraved in 1730. According to the custom for military maps of the time the south is at the top, in the position of a territory to be conquered. See : A. Froehlich, "The Manuscript Maps of the Pyrenees by Roussel and La Blottiere", Imago Mundi, XV, 1960, pp. 94-104.