BRABANT BELGIUM 1748 LE ROUGE ANTIQUE ENGRAVED CHART

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Double your traffic. Carte Idéale du Brabant contenant les Camps de 1746 et 1747. Description: Striking and beautifully detailed copper engraved chart of Brabant, Belgique. Map is filled with a lot of topographical details. Map is fashioned with a title cartouche. Date : 1748 Source: George-Louis LE ROUGE Atlas Nouveau portatif � l'Usage des Militaires College et du Voyageur. Tome Ier ... A Paris, Chez Le Rouge, n. d. [ 1748 ]. Dimension: P aper size approx.: cm 24,2 x 35,1 Condition: Strong and dark impression on thin paper. Paper with chains. Original colors to the outlines. Wide margins. Small browning and foxing. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Cartographer: George-Louis le Rouge (c. 1712- 80) was a Paris based map publisher operating in the middle part of the 18th century. Le Rouge was born in Hanover Germany as Georg Ludwig, where he was educated and employed as a military engineer and surveyor. Around 1740 Le Rouge moved to Paris, Francophied his name, and set up shop on the Rue Des Grands Augustins as an engraver, book publisher and map publisher. Despite being born German and adopting Paris as his home, Le Rouge was an ardent Anglophile and spent much of his time translating English books and maps into French. Much of his cartographic work was based upon English maps. During his active period of roughly forty read more

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