Etats Scandinaves; Russie Carte Physique..par M M Drioux et Ch Leroy
Cartographer : - Drioux, Abbe Claude-Joseph 1820–1898
- Date: - 1876
- Size: - 18 1/2in x 13in (470mm x 330mm)
- Ref#: - 20716
- Condition: - (A+) Fine Condition
Description:
This original coloured antique maps of Scandinavia & Russia by Claude Joseph Drioux was published in the 1876 edition of Nouvel Atlas de Geog. Moderne (Ref: M&B; Tooley)
General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Yellow, brown, pink, red, blue
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 18 1/2in x 13in (470mm x 330mm)
Plate size: - 18 1/2in x 13in (470mm x 330mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (10mm)
Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None
Drioux was a French priest, popular educator, cartographer, geographer, historian, and religious writer.
Drioux was born 17 February 1820 at Bourdons, Haute-Marne. He was first priest, then professor at the seminary of Langres, vicaire général, finally chanoine.
Drioux was the \"star author\" of the publishers Belin. The 51 school textbooks of the Abbé Drioux had a great vogue in France for over thirty years and some ran to 30 editions, \"they almost had a monopoly on the education of children of both sexes in the free institutions both primary and secondary schools of our country\" The total number of books sold exceeded one million. This author derived a steady income from Belin allowing him to purchase the Chateau de Lanty Nièvre, Bourgogne, France, former property of the Marquise de Coligny, where he died 13 May 1898.
As a religious writer and popular educator Drioux was influential not only on schoolchildren but adults in bringing the findings of German scholars to the popular French audience. His pictorial Bible (1864) and history of Rome (1876) contain many interpretations evidently sourced from contemporary German sources, but also renaissance sources such as Menochius. He perhaps independently identified the \"five brothers\" as the sons of Annas and the \"rich man\" as Caiaphas in the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16.
As a geographer Drioux worked primarily with cartographer Charles Leroy 1844-1895. As an editor of Latin theological works he worked with a series of co-editors.
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