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La Suisse Divisee en ses Treze Cantons ses Alliez & ses Sujets - Antique map

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Switzerland. "La Suisse Divisee en ses Treze Cantons ...". Orig. copper-engraving after N. Sanson map. Published by P. Mortier, Amsterdam, ca. 1705. Orig. old colouring. With great fig. title-cartouche, 24 coats-of-arms along the margins, another 9 cots-of-arms in a cartouche lower left, 24 small coats-of-arms in the map and title above the map. 57,5:83,5 cm.

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Mortier, Pierre

Mortier, Pierre

Amsterdam

1705

Switzerland. "La Suisse Divisee en ses Treze Cantons ses Alliez & ses Sujets". Orig. copper-engraving after N. Sanson map. Published by P. Mortier, Amsterdam, ca. 1705. Orig. old colouring. With great fig. title-cartouche, 24 cantonal and city coats-of-arms along the margins, another 9 cots-of-arms in a cartouche lower left, 24 small coats-of-arms in the map and title above the map. 57,5:83,5 cm (22 3/4 x 32 3/4 inch.).

A very decorative map of Switzerland. - Upper margin cutted closely to the desk and set with minor retouching (ca. 2 mm of the letter "S" in the word "Suisse" in the title above the map). Otherwise very well preserved in magnificent old colouring.


Tags: Antique map, Antique maps, Old maps, Map of Switzerland Le Cours du Danube, Coronelli, Sanson, Mortier, 1705, copperplate engraving