L'Europe Dressée Sur les Nouvelles observations faites en toutes les parties de la Terre Rectifiée

by Jean-Baptiste Nolin, Jean-Baptiste Nolin Ii

$12,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A rare and monumental wall map of Europe by one of the great masters of French cartography. Jean-Baptiste Nolin was one of the most accomplished and certainly the most ambitious French cartographer of his era. He founded what ultimately became a family empire in Paris in the 1680s. Exceptionally, he managed to marry superlative decorative ornamentation with the serious objective of producing maps that reflected the most advanced rendering of geographical detail. The artistic

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