[Map]. [CASSINI]. Carte générale et particulière de la Franc - Lot 237

[Map]. [CASSINI]. Carte générale et particulière de la France. 1756-1787. Map no. 146 [Le Doubs], copper-engraved and finely watercolored, dim. 90.2 x 58.5 cm. Elegantly mounted in its original marbled fawn calf binding, smooth flowered spine, t.p. "Besançon" in fawn morocco, triple gilt fillet on boards, gilt roulette on edges, blue and white silk bands bordering the cut-outs made for folding on verso. (Period binding and mounting)With stamp on spine: "Munificentia regis optimi. Cives L. confec[erunt]" [By the munificence of the best of kings. Carried out by 50 of his subjects].Plate part of the first large map of France, entirely surveyed in the field using operations that developed the recently completed general triangulation. It generally comprises between 154 and 181 plates, depending on the possible assemblies. (Monique Pelletier) Some minor restoration to binding. A very fine copy.