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Normandy (Normandie) by Damien de Templeux, published by Jean Leclerc. 1621

Extremely rare map, known from only a few copies.
According to Pastoureau, this map was part of Leclerc's Atlas Théâtre géographique du Royaume de France, 1621. Two copies are known of this atlas (Bibl. Nat. Paris, and Brit. Lib.);


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.


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Description du Pais de Normandie.

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Normandy (Normandie) by Damien de Templeux, published by Jean Leclerc.  

Title: Description du Pais de Normandie.
Par Damien de Templeux escuyer Sre. du Frestoy.
1620. Ioannes le Clerc excudit. Cum Privil. R 23


Cartographer: Damien de Templeux.

Date of the first edition: 1620.
Date of this map: 1621.
Date on map: 1620.

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, 1621. (Pastoureau, p. 297, Leclerc C 1621).

Extremely rare map, known from only a few copies.
According to Pastoureau, this map was part of Leclerc's Atlas Théâtre géographique du Royaume de France, 1621. Two copies are known of this atlas (Bibl. Nat. Paris, and Brit. Lib.);


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.


References: Pastoureau - p. 297, Leclerc C 1621 [40]