VERMANDOIS LA CHAPELLE 1644 BLAEU ANTIQUE ENGRAVED MAP
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Double your traffic. Descriptio Veromanduorum Auctore Ioanne Suthonio Gallice Vermandois / Gouvernement de la Cappelle par P. petit Bourbon . Description: Stricking and hightly detailed copper engraved plate including, on one sheet, two french regional maps . The first centers on Saint Quentin with a lovely title cartouche and a scale of miles held by a musketeer. The second map includes Marle, Leon, Vernins and is decorated with three cartouches . French text on the verso. Date: 1644 Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 54,2 x 43,2 Condition: Very strong a nd dark impression on very strong paper. Paper with chains. Original colors. Wide top and lower margins. Good lateral margins. Paper browned. Small waterstains and mushrooms. Map professionally washed and restored. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Cartographer: The Amsterdam based Blaeu clan represents the single most important family in the history of cartography. The firm was founded in 1596 by Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638). It was in this initial period, from 1596 to 1672, under the leadership of the Willem Blaeu and with this assistance of his two talented sons Cornelius (1616-1648) and Johannis (1596-1673), that the firm was most active. Their greatest cartographic achievement was the publication of the magnificent multi-volume Atlas Major. To this day, the
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