. BOULOGNE (camp de). CASSINI DE THURY (César-François), dir.... Lot 14

. BOULOGNE (camp de). CASSINI DE THURY (César-François), dir. 4 maps surveyed under his direction in the eighteenth century, assembled in a single panel, cut into 24 parts, canvas-backed and folded to in-4 format, with copper-engraved label of the Paris bookseller Jean Goujon, who practiced from the end of the eighteenth century until around 1820. Portion of Cassini's map covering the region between Montreuil and Lens to the south, Calais and Nieuport to the north (plates no. 5, 6, 21, 22), thus including most of the localities that hosted the so-called "Boulogne camp" occupied by the army of the Ocean Coasts as part of Napoleon I's 1803 plan for a descent into England, which was maintained until 1805: Boulogne, Saint-Omer, Montreuil, Étaples, Ambleteuse (where the troops initially stationed in Bruges were placed).