A map of Richmond and its vicinity showing all batteries Finish:Stretched inscribed 'L'observatoire royal commencÚ en

inscribed 'L'observatoire royal commencÚ en 1667

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Advertising drawings show an earlier two-wheeled model leaping a ravine

It was designed by Henry Roberts and his assistant Gilbert Scott

With portraits of Louis XVI of France

A map of Richmond and its vicinity showing all batteries Finish:Stretched inscribed 'L'observatoire royal commencÚ enA map of Richmond and its vicinity showing all batteries, 1862 1867. Richmond was the Confederate capital during the Civil War. An engraving from volume II of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862 1867.