LAPIE (Pierre). Carte d'Europe, où sont tracées les limites des Empires, Royaumes et Etats souverains d'après les derniers traités de paix, drawn by P. Lapie (...), engraved and published by Semen jeune (...). 1812. Rectified for 1816 boundaries. Paris, Semen père, Semen jeune, H. Langlois, J. Goujon, C. Picquet, s.d., large folding map 182 x 187 folded to in-4 format, contours enhanced in color, in leaves, canvas covered. Spectacular map of political Europe after the Congress of Vienna, and the collapse of the Napoleonic system. Pierre Lapie (1777-1850) belonged to the corps of geographic engineers, and had just been appointed director of Louis XVIII's topographic cabinet.

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