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Chiquet’s Map of Sweden

SKU: 9076
£175.00

Title:
Chiquet’s Map of Sweden

Date of publication:

  • 1719
  • Printed Measurement:

  • 16.5 x 22.5 cm
  • Colour:

  • original
  • This map shows the Swedish Empire, including Finland and Swedish Livonia.

    It waspublished in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Read more

    Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print- and map-seller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here.

    Condition & Materials

    Copper engraving, 16.5 x 22.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Read less