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Southern France by Jean Leclerc & Maurice Bouguereau, after G. Mercator. c. 1610-1650

"Les cuivres de Bouguereau, rachetés par Jean Leclerc, constituent, sans nul doute, une étape très marquante de l'histoire de la cartographie française et de sa diffusion." (Pastoureau)


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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Le Dauphiné, Languedoc, Gascoigne, Provence et Xaintonge.

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Southern France by Jean Leclerc & Maurice Bouguereau, after G. Mercator.

Title: Le Dauphiné, Languedoc, Gascoigne, Provence et Xaintonge.
Caesaroduni Turorum Aedibus Mauricii Bouguerealdi. 1593

Cartographer: Gerard Mercator.

Date of the first edition: 1594.
Date of this map: c. 1619-1633.
Date on map: 1593.

Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Image size: 340 x 450mm (13.39 x 17.72 inches).
Sheet size: 505 x 685mm (19.88 x 26.97 inches).
Verso: Blank.
Condition: Original coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A+.

Separate publication - from a French Composite Atlas, c. 1610-1650.

"Les cuivres de Bouguereau, rachetés par Jean Leclerc, constituent, sans nul doute, une étape très marquante de l'histoire de la cartographie française et de sa diffusion." (Pastoureau)


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 A 1619 [38] & p. 82, Bouguereau [8]