Le Cercle de Baviere, subdivise en tous les Estats qui le Composent Dresse sur le Memoires les plus Nouveaux Parle...

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Copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. Depicted on this map is the circle of Bavaria extending in the north towards the neighboring Saxonia and in the south towards Tyrol. In the east the map includes a part of Austria and Bohemia, in the west with the adjacenting Franconia and a section of Suevia. With many engraved place names, rivers, lakes, mountains and other details. Decorated with a large floral and allegoric title cartouche in the upper right corner, further a mileage scale in the upper left corner. The map is very detailed engraved. The ,Atlas Nouveau ...' was commissioned for the French king Louis XIV. The work took over 10 years until the atlas was completed. The maps are still today regarded as a masterpiece of thr French cartography of the late 17th century.

Le Cercle de Baviere, subdivise en tous les Estats qui le Composent Dresse sur le Memoires les plus Nouveaux Parle Sr. Sanson, Geopgraphe Ordinaire du Roy A Pais chez H. Jailott...