Cartography - Lot 573

Cartography SCHRADER (Jean Daniel François dit Franz) Carte du Mont-Perdu et de la région calcaire des Pyrénées Centrales levée par F. SCHRADER & L. LOURDE-ROCHEBLAVE, dressée, dessinée et gravée par F. SCHRADER. Extract from Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Bordeaux, 1874. Printed by G. Chariol, Bordeaux. Scale 1/40,000. Sheet size 57x48 cm. Printed in green and sepia, legend in black. Reverse north orientation at bottom. This map of Mont Perdu is mythical. Published in the "Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Bordeaux" (pp. 447-503) to accompany SCHRADER's article entitled "Etudes Géographiques et Excursions dans le Massif du Mont Perdu" (Paris, Gauthier Villars, 1875, 61pp.), again with the map. Published again in the first year of the "Annuaire du C.A.F." of 1874, accompanying another article by SCHRADER entitled "le Massif du Mont Perdu" (p.101-128), but it was delivered separately and hardly ever appears in the magazine. It's the latter that we find "à part", like ours. In addition to its superb and even strange aesthetic appearance, this first large-scale map of a Pyrenean site was to be emulated and even rivaled. The cartographic race was on, and would see tremendous progress, making the Pyrenees a pioneering site in cartography. MASSIE, who transcribed the legend, states: "... Prepared, drawn and engraved by F. SCHRADER, member of the Société..., de l'Association... des Sciences, who has kindly given a print to the Annuaire du Club Alpin Français". First detailed cartography of the Mont Perdu massif. Preliminary work by the geographer, cartographer and painter par excellence of the Pyrenees, already known for his fabulous drawings (like those of other pioneers such as Albert Charles TISSANDIER). This map, produced with basic and rudimentary instruments, is breathtaking with its realistic graphic layout of the period.