Carte de Provence et des Terres Adjacentes

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Copperplate engraving. Outline color. Relief shown pictorially. Printed between top neat lines: " Carte de Provence et des Terres Adjacentes Par Guillaume DelIsle de l'Academie Rle. Des Sciences A Paris Chez l'Auteur sur le Quay de l'Horloge avec Privilege Octobre 1715." Printed in upper left is a key explaining symbols used in map for cities, villages, towns, parishes, abbeys, chapels, castles, and more. Key also explains abbreviations for principality, duchy, land owned by a marquis, county, land owned by a viscount, barony, adjoining land, Roman roads and other roads. Printed in upper left corner is a scale comparing common French leagues and leagues of Provence. Printed in lower left corner: "Derozier Sc." Written in ink in upper right corner: "No. 44." Depicts Provence as well as parts of the neighboring regions including Languedoc to the west and Nice to the east. Also shows the Gulf of Lyon, the Gulf of Genoa, the Rhone River and the Durance River. Scale: c.a. 1:415,000. Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726) was a cartographer and the Premier Geographer to the King in France beginning in 1718. His family played a significant part in the world of French cartography in the eighteent

Date

1715

Mapmaker / publisher

Desrosiers

Place

Europe by Guillaume Delisle

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

7,308 × 5,798 pixels

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