Lot n° 3
Estimation :
1000 - 1500
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 1 172EUR
Nicolas de FER (1646-1720), Géographe de sa Majesté & de - Lot 3
Nicolas de FER (1646-1720), Géographe de sa Majesté & de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Guillaume Danet (1670-1732), à la Sphère Royale sur le pont Notre-Dame, Paris.
Important map of Italy, around the Po, showing the States of the Dukes of Savoye, Milan, Mantua, Parma, Modena, etc., most of the Republics of Venice, Genoa, Luquas, etc., as well as the Bishopric of Trento, Valtellina, Valais, parts of Switzerland and Graubünden, on a scale of 4 leagues, one hour's journey and a thousand geometric steps or a thousand comuns of Italy.
Enhanced engraving probably part of a project for maps of Europe divided according to the extent of its principal parts, placed according to the Académie Royale des Sciences and drawn up by Nicolas de Fer at the beginning of the 18th century.
Height 110 Width 180 cm
(wear and tear)
A similar map is kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, department Cartes et plans (inv. no. GEC-5778) and another at the Bibliothèque nationale d'Espagne, salle Goya (inv. no. MV/30ROLLO33).
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