LEVRAULT, F. G. Carte de la Turquie d'Europe (partie septentrionale); présentant, d'après le meilleures cartes et documents les plus récens, [other title:] Carte générale de la Grèce our Turquie d'Europe (partie mèridionale) présentant, d'après le meilleures cartes et documents les plus récens, les divisions tant de cette partie de'Empire Ottoman que la Grèce amcienne et moderne. Strasbourg, F. G. Levrault, 1826, tirage de 1828.
Linen-backed lithographic map with hand-colouring in outline, disected into 20 segments and folding into the original slipcase with engraved bookplate of the Duke de Robersart on front cover; slipcase a little worn and marked, two small pin-holes in upper corners, internally near-fine.
Extremely rare and detailed map of all of European Turkey, published when there was increasing intervention of European powers in the Greek War of Independence. The cartographer Levrault was one of the earlier publishers and printers to use the lithographic method. He ran his own papermill not far from Strasbourg.
Alexis Joseph Constant de Robersart (1776-1860) was a nobleman from the northernmost tip of France.
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