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[Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657, Tavernier, Melchior]
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Engraved map of the island of d'Oleron, with an inset in lower left corner showing coast of France and England, the route of an English fleet to La Rochelle. Showing towns, villages, ports, landmarks, fortresses, forests, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative cartouche and compass rose.
Author
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657
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Engraved map of Poitou-Charentes with Ile de Re and the French coast with La Rochelle. With two insets of fortifications. Showing French coastline, during the battle between the English and French in the region, fortifications, towns, villages, landmarks, forests, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative cartouche.
Author
[Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657, Tavernier, Melchior]
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Engraved map of Aunis and City and Government of La Rochelle, France. Showing towns, villages, landmarks, forests, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative cartouche.
Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Tavernier, Melchior, 1594-1665, Cordier, Robert]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Dedication in the top right corner, to Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême (1573-1650), illegitimate son of Charles IX. Short introduction to the map, including its classical sources, in the bottom left corner, in a decorative cartouche flanked by Mercury and Hercules, who stand on the branches of a shrub. Below, obscuring the trunk issuing these branches, is subsidiary cartouche noting Sanson's royal privilege. Two small scale bars along the bottom edge of the map. Cordier's signature in the bottom right, on a small sheet suspended from a hook. Surrounded by Latin descriptions of the regions of Gaul, formed into a u-shape around the map, with an extract from the text of the royal privilege in the bottom right corner, above Tavernier's imprint.
Author
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
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