Ref NoLDGSL/706
TitleMap, 'Carte géologique de la France' [published]
Date1841
LevelItem
Extent12 sheets + 1 reduced map
FormatMap/section
Description'Carte géologique de la France' by Armand Dufrénoy and Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont, 1841. Published map with hand colouring. In 12 sheets. Reduced map is chromolithographed, with a dedication to the Society from Elie de Beaumont.
CustodialHistoryFollowing conservation, transferred from the Map Library, September 2026.
ProvenanceGiven to the Society by the authors, see GSL/L/R/6/421.
Access ConditionsAccess is by appointment only. Please contact the Archivist for further information.
LanguageFrench
Related MaterialA draft version of the map without the topography is in the Greenough collection at LDGSL/947/6/J/13.
Publication NoteThe accompanying text is in the Library collection, published as: Dufrénoy, A., Élie de Beaumont, J.B.A.L.L. and Brochant de Villiers, A.J.M. (ed.) (1841-48) Explication de la Carte géologique de la France. Paris: Imprimerie Royale. ([Mémoires pour servir à l'explication de la carte géologique détaillée de la France]), vols 1-2. Volume 1 includes a hand coloured version of the reduced map, volume 2 came from the Greenough bequest.
ArchNoteDescription by Caroline Lam
CreatorNameÉLIE DE BEAUMONT | Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce | 1798-1874 | geologist
DUFRÉNOY | Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit- | 1792-1857 | geologist and mineralogist
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/750DUFRÉNOY; Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit- (1792-1857); geologist and mineralogist1792-1857
DS/UK/329ÉLIE DE BEAUMONT; Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce (1798-1874); geologist1798-1874
Places
CodePlaceName
NA14France
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