Brabant

Containers:
Oversize_Folder 11
Scope and content:

(Wright Belgium/Holland Map No. 3)

Carte du Brabant. Dresseé sur plusieurs cartes particulieres, manuscrites ou imprimees levees sur les lieux, rectifiees par quelques observations et autres Memoires par Guillaume de L'Isle de l'Academie Royale des Sciences.

[Map of Brabant. Drawn on several particular maps, handwritten or printed on the spot, corrected by some observations and other Memoirs by Guillaume de L'Isle of the Royal Academy of Sciences.]

Shows forests, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Defensive lines shown.

Guillaume Del'Isle, French Royal Academy of Sciences - geographer

Baltasar Ruyter - engraver

J. Covens & C. Mortier, Amsterdam

copper engraving,hand-colored,decorative cartouche canvas backed folding map of 4 sheets

66 cm x 62 cm

1 : 253,000

Title in upper margin: Ducatus Brabantiæ, complectens Domina Llovani. Bruxellarum, Anturpiæ, Silvæ Ducis, Mechliniæ &c

[Duchy of Brabant, comprising Lovain. Brussels Antwerpt, Silver Duke Mechlinie etc.]

Map appears in atlas titled : Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties fu Monde, ou sont exactement remarquees les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques, &c. Par Guillaume de l'Isle. Premier Geographe de sa Majeste. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, sur le Vygendam.

Subjects:
Holland--Maps

Access and use

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