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Hand colored engraved allegorical map of Vice and its results. The map uses cartographic terms and symbols to represent the relationships of abstract concepts and reflects its maker's socially conservative and traditionally French world view. Map focuses on social and sexual transgression, the traditional seven deadly sins that effected the society. "L'Empire du Vice" is the central territory, which is separated from "La Societe" by mountains and "La Vertu by "Detroit des soupire". Includes seven departments with administrative centers named after related vices, they are connected by named railroads and to the imperial capital La Vanite. Showing mountains and forests. Relief shown pictorially. Includes legend, list of departments and at the bottom, text describes the seas, gulfs, straits and capes, islands and peninsula, streams and rives, and railroads. The map diverges considerably from the American tradition of mapping morality, it places no emphasis on the role of alcohol in the promotion of vice. 19th-century American allegorical maps that addressed vice place considerable blame on the consumption of alcohol. Date estimated.

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