CAPITAINE, Louis & BRUÉ, Adrien-Hubert. - Carte de la France comprenant toutes les mairies; divisée en départemens, arrondissemens et cantons, dressée par Louis Capitaine. Revue et augmentée par Belleyme... acquis par le Dépôt de la guerre en 1815, perfectionnée et agrandie jusqu'au delà du Rhin et des Alpes de 1816 à 1821 - A Paris, chez J. Goujon, 1818-1821.- Reunion of 25 large folding maps (out of 28) preserved in two large in-4 "book-style" half-bronze morocco covers, smooth spines decorated with fillets and large gilt fleurons with titles of the maps, green bronze morocco paper covers with gilt garlands (period covers). Beautiful set consisting of 25 (of 28) large canvas-folded leaves divided as follows: Box I: - Tableaux d'assemblage "Carte physique, administrative et routière de la France, indiquant aussi la navigation intérieure du royaume" - 1818 - Very large folding map forming a set (158 X 113 cm.). - Folio 1: Plymouth. - Folio 2: London. - Folio 3: Brussels - Amsterdam. - Folio 4: Nijmegen - Aachen. - Sheet 5: Brest. - Sheets 6, 7 and 8 are not present. - Folio 9: Quimperlé. - Sheet 10: Nantes. - Sheet 11: Bourges. - Folio 12: Besançon. Box II : - Sheet 13: Main title. - Folio 14: Bordeaux. - Sheet 15: Clermont-Ferrand. - Sheet 16: Grenoble. - Folio 17: Santander. - Sheet 18: Bayonne. - Sheet 19: Toulouse. - Sheet 20: Marseille. - Sheet 21: Burgos. - Sheet 22: Zaragoza. - Sheet 23: Barcelona. - Sheet 24: Conventional signs. - Sheet 25: Madrid. - Sheet 26: Valencia. - Folio 27: Balearic Islands. Louis Capitaine, a French cartographer (1749-1797) succeeded Cassini de Thury as director of the Carte de France (1784). He derived a map from it, which was the first to show the administrative divisions of France decreed in 1789. His family participated in the surveys of the Cassini Map from 1755 to 1789. From 1779 onwards, he was responsible for guarding the repository of the Carte de France. After the map was confiscated by the Convention, he defended the rights of the associates who believed they owned it. He was responsible for several reductions of the Carte de France: reduction to a quarter in 1789-1790 with the administrative divisions of old France, then with the départements.