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Small, attractive map of the island of Noirmoutier, France in the Pays de Loire region of Western France, just off the coast in the Atlantic Ocean. Price includes standard international shipping.
The map shows a great deal of interior detail as small as individual buildings, churches, windmills, and gardens. Offshore, small sailing vessels fill up the empty space. This map is a variant similar to but substantially different from the version published by Tassin in "Les Plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France" . This more scarce version contains a compass rose, the cartouche appears at top right, and the ships and interior island details are different. This version of the map is also a variant of the copy held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Plate 28.
Published by Tavernier in one of the many small-sized atlases created by Christophe Nicholas Tassin (d. 1660) . Tassin's background was as a military engineer, and he is best known for his nautical atlas of 30 sheets, dedicated to Richelieu, documenting France's coastline. Tassin's work contains topographic maps, often of militarily important sites, either sketched on site, composed from firsthand drawings by military engineers, or sometimes borrowed from other mapmakers.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1634
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: France
BODY OF WATER: Atlantic Ocean
CONDITION: Very Good.
Very clean wide margins. No condition issues. On chain laid paper with a small watermark of a flower.
COLORING: None
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 6
" x
4 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0
PRICE: $
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