No.94 Departement de la Manche, et du Calvados: Districts de Carentan, St Lo, Bayeux, Caen

Single sheet. Hand coloured engraving. Scale: 1:86,400. Paris meridian. The map is linen backed and segmented for folding into a slip case. Map detaching from linen backing. Includes Bayeux and Caen. Ninety-fourth sheet of Cassini's 'Carte de France', in slip case 'Tom.6'. This copy was reportedly taken from the battlefield of Waterloo in 1815 by Colonel Henry Percy, Aide-de-Camp to Wellington.

Object Details

ID: PBH8042(92)
Type: Map
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Cassini, Jacques Dominique; Cassini de Thury, Cesar-Francois
Date made: 1744-1815; 1740-179- 1740-1789
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: Overall: 57 cm x 91 cm
Parts: Carte Geometrique de la France (Map)
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