Parts Regions & Departments of France

23x17 cm

TOTIUS Lemouici eT
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 region of Limousin in south west central France now part of Nouvelle Aquitaine region.