The Austrian Netherlands. Les Provinces des Pays-Bas Catholiques ou a most Exact Map of Flanders or Austrian Netherlands etc.

Herman Moll.

Verlag: London: I. & T. Bowles and John King. nd. [1715?]., 1715

Beschreibung

Plate size: 1015 x 615mm. Engraved with period outline colour, on two joined sheets, with insets of Luxembourg, part of France, and a large inset fortification plan. Large title cartouche with dedication to his Grace James Duke of Ormond , to upper left corner. Notation concerning the Treaty for Settling the Barrier in the Netherlands (1715). Herman Moll (1654-1732) came to London in about 1678 and worked as an engraver for other publishers, such as Moses Pitt, Greenville Collins, John Adair, and Seller & Price, but soon set up his own business publishing atlases and also separate maps of all parts of the world. His work was varied, ranging from miniature maps to large very decorative wall maps. The first maps engraved by Moll in his own right were prepared for the atlas volume accompanying Sir Jonas Moore s New System Of The Mathematicks, in which he began to develop his characteristic engraving style. Maps in Moll s large folio atlas, The World Describ d, are clearly printed with large cartouches enclosing the title and dedication, and often with large vignettes. This atlas, Moll's crowning achievement and a pinnacle of eighteenth-century European cartography, was published in nine British and two pirated Irish editions between 1715 and 1754, and usually comprised thirty large two- sheet maps of all parts of the world. It not only exhibited Moll's engraving skill in its most distinctive form, it also contained some of the best examples of his characteristic and famous map notations. This map of the Austrian Netherlands is identical to that in the Lansdowne copy (dated 1730 containing 28 maps) at the B.L. ( maps c.46.f.12 ), and has a pencil notation of the title and number 22 to the verso. In good original condition, with splits to folds expertly repaired to verso, and one chip to top edge, outside the image area. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PS.086

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Titel: The Austrian Netherlands. Les Provinces des ...

Verlag: London: I. & T. Bowles and John King. nd. [1715?].

Erscheinungsdatum: 1715

Einband: Softcover