Estats de Pologne subdivisés suiuant l`estendue des Palatinats par le S. Sanson. G. du R. - Presenté A Moneigneur le...

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Copper engraving and hand colored fine example of a strong impression of this map. This issue is published and printed at Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam 1708 This map, printed from two plates, was first published in the 'Atlas Noveau ...' by Alexis Hubert Jaillot & N. Sanson. Fifth state. In the left upper corner ornated with a large decorative highly ornated allegoric figurative title-cartouche. Hubert Jaillot's map can be treated as a masterpiece of the French baroque cartography in the 17th century. It took Nicolaus Sanson and Hubert Jaillot a period of about fifteen years to complete this enormous work (c. 1681-96). The atlas was dedicated to Ludwig XIV.

Les Estats dela Couronne de Pologne, subdivisés en leurs Palatinats. Quicomprennent le Royaume de Pologne, le Grand Duché de Lithuanie, les duchés de Prusse, Mazovie, Samogitie, les Provinces de Volhynie, et de Podolie, ou est compris L`Ukraine ou pays des Cosaques, sur les memoires les plus Nouueaux.

Niewodniczanskiego Part II, Page 84, K35, Fifth state (with ,Geographe de Sa Majeste' and altered date ,1708'.