L'Isle de France by Jean Leclerc. 1621
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 Maurica Bouguereau, the plates for whose Le Théâtre François passed to Leclerc sometime before 1619. These formed the core of his own Théâtre.
L'Isle de France et lieux circo[n]voysins.
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L'Isle de France by Jean Leclerc.
Title: L'Isle de France et lieux circo[n]voysins.
I. le Clerc. ex.
Date of the first edition: 1619.
Date of this map: 1621.
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Image size: 340 x 515mm (13.39 x 20.28 inches).
Sheet size: 505 x 680mm (19.88 x 26.77 inches).
Verso: Blank.
Condition: Original coloured in outline, on thick paper, excellent.
Condition Rating: A+.
Separate publication - from a French Composite Atlas, c. 1610-1650.
Appeared in: Théâtre géographique du Royaume de France. Paris, Jean Leclerc, 1619. (Pastoureau, p. 295, 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 Maurica Bouguereau, the plates for whose Le Théâtre François passed to Leclerc sometime before 1619. These formed the core of his own Théâtre.