COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657
Date:
1653
Short Title:
Carte Generale Des Treize Cantons de Suisse
Publisher:
Chez Pierre Mariette
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
37
Obj Width cm:
51
Scale 1:
1,584,000
Note:
Engraved map of Switzerland. Showing Cantons and other independent regions, towns, villages, landmarks, forests, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative cartouches and compass rose.
Country:
Switzerland
Full Title:
Carte generale des treze cantons de Suisses. Valley Ligues Grise, Maison Dieu et Valteline. (to acompany: Theatre geographique de France ... A Paris, Chez Pierre Mariette, M.DC. LIII (1653)).
List No:
13021.053
Page No:
52
Series No:
53
Publication Author:
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657
Pub Date:
1650
Pub Title:
(Theatre geographique de France, contenant les cartes particulieres de ses provinces. Et celles de ses frontieres & pays adjacens. Le tout selon la table contenue au feuillet suivant. A Paris, Chez Pierre Mariette, M.DC. LIII (1653)).
Pub Note:
Geographical theater of France, containing the maps of its provinces. And those of its borders & adjacent countries. Published in Paris by Pierre Mariette, 1650. Atlas has no title page and index (but supplied in facsimile of the 1653 edition), title provided by cataloger based on Mireille Pastoureau," The French Atlas (16th-17th centuries): Bibliographic Directory and Study ", Paris, 1984. The "Geographic Theater" of Mariette succeeds that of Tavernier of 106 plates, but it offers 60 maps, dated 1627-1646, edited by Pierre-Jean Mariette and engraved by Michel van Lochom, Melchior Tauernier and Abraham Peyrounin, Abraham. This atlas copy composed of 57 maps, lacks maps 41 "Carte de Provence", 42 "Description des Isles de Ste. Margrite & St. Honorat" and 54 "Carte la Savoye". For map 42 see Record #12100.041.
Pub List No:
13021.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
60
Pub Height cm:
41
Pub Width cm:
30
Image No:
13021053.jp2
Authors:
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657
Link To Source
Carte Generale Des Treize Cantons de Suisse
