Cassini – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:36:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Cassini – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 A Huge, Super-Expensive Edition of the Cassini Map https://www.maproomblog.com/2023/06/a-huge-super-expensive-edition-of-the-cassini-map/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:27:54 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1816382 More]]> Book cover of The Cassini MapFrench publisher Conspiration Éditions has announced the forthcoming publication of a huge, luxury edition of the Cassini map. The 18th-century map is, famously, the first comprehensive map of France, and the first map to be based on triangulation. Their edition is enormous: at 56 × 65 cm (or 22 × 25.6 inches), it’s big enough to show each plate as a two-page spread at full size (Conspiration is reprinting a hand-coloured original apparently owned by Marie-Antoinette). At 15 kg (33 lbs), the book is also pretty heavy, and includes a foldable stand. It is, however, not remotely cheap: it’s being published in a limited edition of 900 copies that will be released for sale in April 2024 at the rather stunning price of €2,400; 300 copies can be purchased before the end of October 2023 at the low, low subscription price of €1,800.

Previously: La Carte de Cassini.

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There are several online versions of the Carte générale de France, the first comprehensive map of France produced by the Cassini family in the 18th century. Some, like those hosted by the EHESS and the David Rumsey Map Collection, georectify and stitch together the individual maps together to make a more-or-less seamless whole. On Gallica, the Bibliothèque nationale de France’s digital library, it’s presented as individual sheets; the Library of Congress does the same with its copy—the better to appreciate the originals, I suppose. [via]

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