Description generale de toute la France

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Title:

Description generale de toute la France

Author:

Belleforest, François de, 1530-1583, Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552, and Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598

Author (no Collectors):

Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598

Topic:

map

Language:

French

Physical Description:

1 map : engraving, hand colored; 350 x 510 cm.

Publication Info:

fr and [Paris]

Imprint:

1575

Genre:

map

Notes:

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Bar scale on map given in "Milliaria Gallica communia".
• Imprint taken from atlas.
• Title at top, decorative cartouche with descriptive text, coat of arms, crown with fleur de lis.
• "Ceste description se doit mettre aps le fueil. 160."
• Map based on Ortelius' first modern map of the German Empire, 1570, and includes the same decorative cartouche, ship at sea, and coat of arms.
• Appears in Belleforet's Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde, 1575, French edition of Münster's Cosmographia universalis, 1544-1628.