April 12, 2024
SOUTHERN LANGUEDOC FRANCE 1650 JANSSONIUS ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
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Double your traffic. La Partie Meridionale du Languedoc . Description: Striking and highly detailed Janssonius's 1650 copper engraved map of southern part of Languedoc, a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day régions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées in the south of France. Map gives several details concerning cities, villages, rivers, lakes, sand bankes, mountains. Map adorned with a large decorative title cartouche embellished with a large armorial, a compass rose and a strap work cartouche including two scales of distances. Without text on verso . Date: 1650 approx. ( undated ) Dimension: Pa per size approx.: cm 55,4 x 44,4 Condition: Very strong a nd dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Uncolored as issued. Wide top and lower margins. Wide lateral margins. Small browning and foxing. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: Jan Jansson or Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664) was born in Arnhem, Holland. He was the son of a printer and bookseller and in 1612 married into the cartographically prominent Hondius family. Following his marriage he moved to Amsterdam where he worked as a book publisher. It was not until 1616 that Jansson produced his first maps, most of which were heavily influenced by Blaeu. In the mid 1630s Jansson partnered with his brother-in-law,
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