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Chorographie du Cercle d'Autriche ... 1769 - Antique map

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Bohemia, Moravia, Austria. "Chorographie du Cercle d'Autriche .. 1769". Orig. copperplate engraving after Philippe de Pretot map. Orig. old colouring. Published in Paris, 1769. With decorative title cartouche with 5 coats of arms and a cartouche with explanatory notes. 28,5:36,5 cm.

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Pretot, Etienne Andre Philippe de

Pretot, Philippe de

Paris

1769

Bohemia, Moravia, Austria. "Chorographie du Cercle d'Autriche .. 1769". Orig. copperplate engraving after Philippe de Pretot map. Orig. old colouring. Published in Paris, 1769. With decorative title cartouche with 5 coats of arms (of Austria, Tyrol, Carniola, Carinthia and Styria) and a cartouche with explanatory notes. 28,5:36,5 cm.

 Etienne Andre Philippe De Pretot (1708 - 1787) was a royal censor as well as a professor of history at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. He published a variety of geographical material from 1744 onwards until his death in 1787. Hs most famous work, 'Atlas Universal', was published in the year of his death.

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