France. Viollet-le-Duc, E. (1876). Le Massif du Mont Blanc. Paris: J. Baudry. Scale 1:40,000. Colour lithographed topographic map, 122 x 103 cm, mounted on linen folded between marbled card covers
France. Viollet-le-Duc, E. (1876). Le Massif du Mont Blanc. Paris: J. Baudry. Scale 1:40,000. Colour lithographed topographic map, 122 x 103 cm, dissected and mounted on linen folding to 30.5 x 20.5 cm between marbled card covers with manuscript title on label with English spelling - Violet. Clean, bright, negligible wear. Neat owner stamp in bottom right corner margin. In very good to fine condition. NOT GEOLOGICAL.
A cartographic masterpiece, Viollet-le-Duc, the architect who restored Notre Dame Cathedral, surveyed Mont Blanc over 8 summers with a teleiconograph – a combination of a telescope and a camera obscura - to create an image he intended to look as if it was taken from 10,000m. See