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Rare broadside plan of Cherbourg
Plan of the Coast of Cherbourg,
with a Sketch of the Works which the French are now executing to Inclose and Defend the Road, &c. Third Edition Revised, Corrected and Improved.
[London], Published as the Act directs, by W[illia]m Faden, Geog[raphe]r to the King, Charing Cross,
Jan[uar]y 1st, 1788.
Broadside engraved plan, original outline hand-colour, inset plan of the 'conical caissons' letterpress text below.
700 by 510mm (27.5 by 20 inches).
1113
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Rare separately issued plan of Cherbourg.
The plan gives detailed information on the defences at Cherbourg in 1788, with the position of the forts, redoubts and the reach of their cannon and mortar; together with the placement and construction of the 'Trucated Cones, or Conical Caissons'. These large wooden structures - some 170 feet in diameter - were being placed at the harbour's mouth in order to narrow its entrance. The plan and the text below goes into consi...
The plan gives detailed information on the defences at Cherbourg in 1788, with the position of the forts, redoubts and the reach of their cannon and mortar; together with the placement and construction of the 'Trucated Cones, or Conical Caissons'. These large wooden structures - some 170 feet in diameter - were being placed at the harbour's mouth in order to narrow its entrance. The plan and the text below goes into consi...
bibliography:
BLMC Maps 17365.(3.)
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