Parts Regions & Departments of France

24 x 17 cm

Tourame TURONENSIS DUCATUS
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 duchy of Touraine. During the 16th century Touraine was the preferred residence of French kings. The royal duchy became a province in 1584. Now part of the Centre Val de Loire