Index map of Belgium and Holland

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Scope and Contents

(Wright Index Map of Belgium and Holland)

Carte des Pays Bas Catholiques Dressée sur un grand nombre des Cartes particulieres faites sur les lieux ou les limites sont exactement marquées suivant les derniers Traitéz

[Map of the Catholic Netherlands Drawn on many of the particular maps made on the places where the boundaries are exactly marked according to the latest treaties]

Small scale map of Belgium and Holland. Relief shown pictorially.

Guillaume Del'Isle, Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris - geographer

Joannes van Luchtenburgh - engraver

J. Covens & C. Mortier, Amsterdam - publisher

copper engraving,hand-colored,decoraative cartouche,canvas backed,folding map of 4 sheets

52 cm x 62 cm

1 : 704,000

Title in upper margin: Belgium Regium accuratissime divisum. &c: Ad usum serenissimi Burgundiæ Ducis. Authore G. De l'Isle, geographe.

[Royal Belgium accurately divided &c. For the use of the Duke of Burgundy. G. Del'Isle, Geographer]

Map appears in atlas titled : Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties su Monde, ou sont exactement remarquees les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques, &c. Par Guillaume de l'Isle. Premier Geographe de sa Majeste. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, sur le Vygendam. 1742.

Map inscribed by John Womack Wright with numbered areas designating the other maps of the regions of Belgium and Holland in the collection

Dates

Creation: circa 1675-1918

Creator

From the Collection: Wright, John Womack, 1876-1953 (Collector, Person)
From the Collection: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Saint Helene, Placide de (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Senex, John, d. 1740 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702 (Cartographer, Person)

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