Garonne region by Jean Leclerc. c. 1610-1650
Jean Le Clerc (1560-c. 1622)
Geographer, publisher, and engraver, fourth in a dynasty of printers and booksellers. Trades from 'Rue S. Jean de Latran à la Sallemandre Royalle'. He worked for a while for Maurice Bouguereau, the plates for whose Le Théâtre François passed to Leclerc sometime before 1619. These formed the core of his own Théâtre.
La Carte du Bourdelois, du Pays de Medoc, et de la Prevosté de Born.
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Rare map of the Garonne Medoc regions by Jean Leclerc.
Title: La Carte du Bourdelois, du Pays de Medoc, et de la Prevosté de Born.
Jean le Clerc excudit. Cum privilegio Regis.
Salomon Rogers sculp.
Oriented to the east.
Engraver: Salomon Rogers.
Date of the first edition: 1619.
Date of this map: c. 1630-1633.
Date on map: 1628.
Copper engraving, printed on heavy paper.
Image size: 330 x 455mm (12.99 x 17.91 inches).
Sheet size: 505 x 685mm (19.88 x 26.97 inches).
Verso: Blank.
Condition: Original coloured, side margins extended; excellent.
Condition Rating: A+.
Separate publication - from a French Composite Atlas, c. 1610-1650.
Appeared in: Theatre geographique du royaume de France. Paris, Jean Le Clerc, 1619. (Pastoureau, Leclerc A 1619)
Jean Le Clerc (1560-c. 1622)
Geographer, publisher, and engraver, fourth in a dynasty of printers and booksellers. Trades from 'Rue S. Jean de Latran à la Sallemandre Royalle'. He worked for a while for Maurice Bouguereau, the plates for whose Le Théâtre François passed to Leclerc sometime before 1619. These formed the core of his own Théâtre.