1806, Mentelle/Chanlaire, Suisse, Switzerland, carte ancienne, antiquarian map.

Condition : good, minior stains to margins, faint trace of central fold, minor tears to lower margin. A very good clean copy.
Illustrator / geographer : Edme Mentelle and Pierre Gilles Chanlaire, engraved by Alexandre Blondeau.
Format : 42 x 32 cm (65 x 50 cm).
Colour : hand-coloured (old).
Publisher / Engraver : Paris, Pierre Gilles Chanlaire and Edme Mentelle.
Date : 1806.

Very fine large-margin engraved double-page map, hand-coloured.

Edme Mentelle was born on 11 October 1730 in Paris, where he died on 29 December 1815. A pupil of Jean-Baptiste-Louis Crevier at the Collège de Beauvais, Mentelle obtained a job in the administration of general farms and tried his hand at literature. He published a few unsuccessful poems and comedies, before taking up the study of geography. Mentelle can be considered the emblematic French geographer of the late eighteenth century. He was the author of a large number of works, many of which were highly successful, and of the Atlas universel, consisting of 170 maps.