Germania by an unknown mapmaker (Jean Leclerc?) c. 1630-1650
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 Maurica Bouguereau, the plates for whose Le Théâtre François passed to Leclerc sometime before 1619. These formed the core of his own Théâtre.
Germania, Non ea tantum quae Rheno, Vistula, Danubio, mariqz Germanico Veteribus claudebatur;
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Germania by an unknown mapmaker.
This scarce map is, according to Meurer, probably published by Jean Leclerc.
Title: Germania, Non ea tantum quae Rheno, Vistula, Danubio, mariqz Germanico Veteribus claudebatur;
Sed tota illa continens quae hodie communiter Germanica lingua utitur, unacu(m) finitimaru(m) regionum Galliae, Daniae, Poloniae, Hungariae limitibus. Monendus lector Academias adnotari tali asterico (*) in hac charta.
Date: c. 1625.
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Image size: 350 x 470mm (13.78 x 18.5 inches).
Sheet size: 505 x 690mm (19.88 x 27.17 inches).
Verso: Blank.
Condition: Original coloured, original backed with paper, age-toned.
Condition Rating: A+
Separate publication - from a French Composite Atlas, c. 1630-1650.
An old French handwritten explanatory text about the colours used is in the left margin.
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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