Parts Regions & Departments of France

24x17 cm

BORBONIUM Ducatus
Allier & Auvergne.
Copper engraving first issued by Flemish engraver Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) in Atlas Minor c.1620. Hondius' work was largely comprised of reductions of Mercators plates. Several editions followed under various titles. 
This example, with English text verso and with additional typeset English titles in the left margin, was issued in Historia Mundi: or Mercators Atlas containing his Cosmographical Description of the Fabricke and Figure of the World...London, T. Cotes for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright, 1637.

Showing the old Bourbonnais region including the major towns Moulins, Montluçon, Vichy, Gannat, Saint-Amand-Montrond, Saint-Pierre-Moutier, Bourbon-l'Archambault.

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