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13 parts in 4 volumes (12 4/8 x 8 inches): 4 additional engraved title-pages, folding double-page maps of Gaul (France), 2 of Paris, Isle de France, Lyonnois, Orleans, Rouen, The English Channel, Gascony, Provence, 2 folding panoramas of Paris, and others of Rouen, Dijon, and Nevers, double-page folding plans of Paris and 9 others, 251 double-page and 48 full-page plates of regional maps, town plans and views, churches, chateaux and other important buildings (some browning to text, particularly at the end of the last volume). Contemporary Dutch blind panelled vellum (a bit worn and soiled, lacking ties). PROVENANCE: From the collection of Prince and Princess Henry de la Tour D'Auvergne Lauraguais, their sale, Sotheby's, 3rd May 2012, lot 418. EDITION IN DUTCH, ALSO PUBLISHED IN GERMAN AND LATIN. Published just as Louis XIV, the Sun King, began his rule and cultural revolution in France, this is the most comprehensive guide to France of the 17th-century. "Until 1661 the real master of France was Cardinal Mazarin, under whose government his country, victorious over Austria (1643-48) and Spain (1643-59), acquired by the Treaties of Westphalia (1648) and the Pyrennes (1659) Alsace, Artois, and Roussillon, which had already been occupied by French troops since the days of Richelieu. As a result of the marriage between Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Austria, Louis XIV also acquired rights over the Low Countries. When Louis's personal government began (1661), France was the arbiter of Europe: she had re-established peace among the Powers of the North (Sweden, Brandenburg, Denmark, and Poland); she protected the League of the Rhine; and her authority in Germany was greater than the emperor's. At that period the power of France, established upon the firmest foundations, was perhaps less imposing, but was assuredly more solid, than it became during the most glorious days of Louis XIV's personal government' (Catholic Encyclopedia online). Matthaeus Merian was a notable Swiss engraver born in 1593 in Basel. He learned copperplate engraving in Zurich, though he studied later in Strasbourg, Nancy and Paris. He returned to Basel in 1615, moving to Frankfurt 1616. There he worked for Johann Theodor de Bry, the celebrated publisher whose daughter, Maria Magdelana he married in 1617. In 1620 he and his family moved back to Basel, though they returned to Frankfurt in 1623. After his death in 1650, Mathaeus' sons, Mathaeus and Caspar continued his monumental "Topographia" series of Europe. Catalogued by Kate Hunter. N° de ref. del artículo 72lib925
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