LALLEMAND

67 x 75 cm.

Engraved map with outline hand colour, sectioned and linen-backed, two large vignettes: a view of Constantinople; and costumed Turks and European soldiers facing off across a stream, with the fine nineteenth century label of Charles Delarue & Hivert on the verso. Fine map with beautiful vignettes by Adrien Toussaint Lallemand (1793 – c.1856), geographer and engraver at the Depôt de la Guerre. Lallemand was appointed at a precociously young age and later set up in business on his own, the quality of his work assuring him of the continued business of the Depôt. Highly attractive map of the Ottoman Empire published at the outset time of the Crimean War (1853-1856).