17e siècle - "LES ROYAUMES de SUEDE, DANEMARCK et de NORWEGE - Lot 746

17e siècle - "LES ROYAUMES de SUEDE, DANEMARCK et de NORWEGE, divisez en plusieurs provinces et gouvernements, selon les mémoires de BUROEUS, de SCHEFFER et de plusieurs autres, corrigez et augmentez par le Sieur de TILLEMONT ( * ), à Paris chez I.B. NOLIN, sur le quai de l' horloge, du Palais proche la rue de Harlay à l'enseigne de la Place des Victoires, et avec privilège du Roy, 1691. Fine intaglio engraving on copper, colorized. Format 55 x 75 cm. In a handsome frame with wide gilded wood moldings and protective plexiglas. Beautiful RARE documentary map, with missing upper right corner (see photos). For all you need to know about the geography and territorial divisions of the White Sea, the Muscovy Sea, Eastern and Western Gothia, Ingria, Livonia, Curland, the Island of Iceland, the state of Terre Ferme, the archdioceses of Vpsal, Riga, Lunden, Drontherm etc... Litlandie, Cajanie ... to understand the scale of the different leagues of Sweden, Dalecarlia, Westro-Gothlande, Vplande, Germany, Finland, Muscovy, Helsinge, Bothie and Lapland .... ( * ) Jean Nicolas de TILLEMONT, born in Limoges in 1640, also known as Jean Nicolas DU TRALAGE, Sieur de TILLEMONT. Cartographer, geographer, published numerous descriptive works, books and maps, particularly on France (descriptif géographique du Royaume de France). On his death in 1699, he bequeathed his 32,000 engravings, books and maps to the Abbaye Saint Victor, whose holdings were transferred to the Bibliothèque Nationale during the French Revolution.