Two steel engraved folding maps showing the whole Mediterranean basin, the first entitled: Maroc, Algerie, Espagne, France, the second: Mer Noire et Turquie d’Asie, each 70 x 100 cm, laid down on linen, kept in a thick marbled paper, fitted in a slip case, title gilt on spine of slipcase, printed by Charles Picquet, Paris, 1840.

Synopsis

These two maps that complete each other were published after detailed mapping by the French navy adding more information and details supplied by French security services. Pelet conducted many reforms in the topographic service of the army. He was in particular a strong supporter of the realization of the “map of France” better known as the “Staff card” whose first pages appear in 1833.