Parts Regions & Departments of France

25x17 cm

PERCHENSIS Comitatus LA PERCHE COMTE
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 former province of Perche including the towns Nogent-le-Rotrou, Mortagne-au-Perche, Le Mans, Alençon, Nonancourt, Courville-sur-Eure.

Small bottom margin with some minor repairs to paper edge.