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A particularly attractive map of France or ancient Gaul. It famously depicts the country before Louis XIV lost a third of his territory to mapmakers who concluded that the longitudinal width of the country was not as great as was depicted! Not in Pastoureau.
SANSON, Nicolas

La France et les environs, jusques a l'Estendue de L'Ancienne. Gaule

Paris, 1693
440 x 570 mm., early outline colour, in good condition.
Stock number: 6420
£ 225
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