Lot 03210

Lapie Pierre M., “Carte de la Moree dressee et gravee au Depot de la guerre par ordre du gouvernement en 1807, publiee a Paris en 1814”. Impressive (105x61cm), separated printed in six sheets & attached on linen, military wall map of Peloponnessus, with additional inset maps of Navarino gulf, Isthmus of Corinth, and Rio-Antirio channel. A semi-topographical, very accurate map for its time, based on semi-triangular measurements and (partly) on non measurable observations. In 1802 Napoleon ordered a new accurate map of Morea with The French Depot de la Guerre producing this map from 1803 up to 1807 under the leadership of Barbie du Bocage. The map was not published for security reasons until 1814, when the geographer Pierre Lapie published it with minor additions. This was the most accurate map of Morea, until the complete triangulation of the area in the early 1830s (the French Expedition map), widely used during Greek revolution as many testimonies certify. Self adhesive tape on linen joints on reverse. VERY RARE.