LABORDE, Jean-Benjamin (1734-1794). Carte du Théàtre de la Guerre en Orient, with revisions by E. Mentelle and P.G. Chanlaire. Paris: chez les auteurs, An VII [1792]. Large folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, with cartouche showing Napoleon and his troops at Alexandria and two inset maps (slight creasing along central fold and light staining at joins, small marginal tear), 1525 x 935mm.

LABORDE, Jean-Benjamin (1734-1794). Carte du Théàtre de la Guerre en Orient, with revisions by E. Mentelle and P.G. Chanlaire. Paris: chez les auteurs, An VII [1792]. Large folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, with cartouche showing Napoleon and his troops at Alexandria and two inset maps (slight creasing along central fold and light staining at joins, small marginal tear), 1525 x 935mm.

LABORDE'S IMPRESSIVE MAP, much taller than it is wide, takes an unusual geographical perspective, stretching down from Eastern Europe and central Asia to Egypt and the horn of Africa, Arabia, and Persia. The two inset maps show the routes from Siré to Gondar and from Gondar to the sources of the Nile. RARE ON THE MARKET. On-line ABPC records only one copy, sold in 2003, with the map bisected. Not in Atabey.