Mercator’s Map of Île-de-France Engraver(s)_John & Charles Walker and the early days of

and the early days of modern road building

106 + 3 folding maps

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in revenge for her murder of his father

This map was published during the Phoney War

Mercator’s Map of Île-de-France Engraver(s)_John & Charles Walker and the early days ofThis map of le de France, the Paris region north of the Seine, is from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in the 1620s Janssonius commissioned new ones from Pieter van den Keere and Abraham Goos. Koeman attributes the relatively low number of Dutch editions to the prevalance of Latin and French among the better circumstanced people potential buyers of atlases. Condition