Cartography SCHRADER (Jean Daniel François... - Lot 579 - Briscadieu

Cartography SCHRADER (Jean Daniel François dit Franz) Central Pyrenees with the great Massifs of the Spanish side. Map at 1:100,000 scale. 2nd edition published with the assistance of the C.A.F. Summary revision by Léon MAURY (1929). Corrections in 1932 and 1933. Engraved by ERHARD. Paris, Barrère, 1933. Large canvas map, 130.5x64 cm, with 6 sheets printed in color: I/ Gavarnie, Mont-Perdu - II/ Posets, Monts-Maudits - III/ Val d'Aran - IV/ Rio Ara - V/ Cotiella, Turbon - VI/ Nogueras, Sierra de los Encantados. Folded format: 21x22 cm. These 6 maps are very difficult to assemble. They first appeared as a supplement to the Annuaire du C.A.F. (between 1882 and 1901). "This is the only map representing all the major Pyrenean mountain ranges on a topographic scale". Comte ARLOT de SAINT-SAUD and H. GAUSSEN also contributed to the revision of these maps.