'Le Comté d'Artois et des environs'. N France & W Belgium. VISSCHER c1680 map
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Le Comté d'Artois et des environs, ou l'on voit le ressort du Conseil Provincial d'Artois avec les frontieres de Picardie. [The county of Artois and environs, in which is the seat of the Provincial Council of Artois and the borders of Picardy]
A map of the county of Artois. The map covers part of Picardy, Nord-Pas de Calais & Flanders within northern France and western Belgium. The area covered by the map stretches from Mons in the East to Ghent in the North, and Dieppe and Abbeville in the southwest. Many towns are marked including Calais, Lille, Boulogne, Dunkirk, Cambrai, Tournai & Douai. The area around Calais is named "Pais Reconquis", the name given to it after the Pale of Calais was reconquered from the English in 1558.
Size 52 x 92 cm | 20.5 x 36.0 inches
Date Published: c1680
Type: Antique seventeenth century copperplate map. Three sheets conjoined, uncoloured
Author: Visscher, family
Publication: Amsterdam, chez Nicolaum Visscher
Condition: Good |
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