DESCRIPTION: One of a kind, 200 year-old manuscript topographic map of the French Mediterranean island Île de Bagueau and the north coast of Port-Cros island. Signed and dated within by Ch[arles] Pinot, Director of Fortifications in 1816.
Topograhic detail shown through faint contour lines in pencil with benchmarks and elevation stated in several locations. Three cannon batteries noted in red on Bagueau. On Port-Cros, Pinot noted these features: Presqu'ile de Malalenge, Plage de Jeannet, Batterie Sud, and Chateau Ruine.
Both Île de Bagueau and Port-Cros belong to the îles d'Hyères, a group of four Mediterranean islands off the village of Hyères in the Var department of south-east France. Île de Bagueau at 45 hectares is the smallest of the four islands in the group. Port-Cros, at 650 hectares, is a French national Park.
Signed in French in faint ink: Toulon, 5th October, 1816 The Colonel and Director of Fortifcations Charles Pinot. A note in ink below the title begins: "La partie de terrain marquee…".
With a faint red oval overstamp of the "DEPOT de la Direction des Fortifications DE TOULON"
PUBLICATION DATE: 1816
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: France
BODY OF WATER: Mediterranean Sea
CONDITION: Very good.
Clean on very heavy solid paper.
COLORING: Original wash handcolor.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 22
" x
15 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0
PRICE: $900
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