La Saintonge vers le Midy auecq. le Brovageais, terre d'Arvert &C.; Gerard Valck 1651/52–1726 and Pieter Schenck 1660–1711, publishers; Nicolas Sanson 1600–1667, author; map of La Saintonge, France Saintes; 1711; map, cartography; Amsterdam; height 44.3 cm, width 53.7 cm, An aged rectangular map printed on cream paper with a decorative border sits centered on a larger cream sheet; the map area shows landmasses and coastlines filled with pale yellow, pink, green, and brown hand coloring, with darker outlines in red and green along some borders; a few cartographic symbols and tiny pictorial hills in brown mark terrain, and several small ship illustrations appear on the pale blue-gray water areas; the map includes a decorative cartouche in the lower left corner featuring small cherubic figures and floral ornament colored in pink, green, brown, and flesh tones, and a ribboned title panel in the upper right with ornamental flourishes in pink and green; fine black ink lines form a grid and m...
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La Saintonge vers le Midy auecq. le Brovageais, terre d'Arvert &C.; Gerard Valck 1651/52–1726 and Pieter Schenck 1660–1711, publishers; Nicolas Sanson 1600–1667, author; map of La Saintonge, France Saintes; 1711; map, cartography; Amsterdam; height 44.3 cm, width 53.7 cm, An aged rectangular map printed on cream paper with a decorative border sits centered on a larger cream sheet; the map area shows landmasses and coastlines filled with pale yellow, pink, green, and brown hand coloring, with darker outlines in red and green along some borders; a few cartographic symbols and tiny pictorial hills in brown mark terrain, and several small ship illustrations appear on the pale blue-gray water areas; the map includes a decorative cartouche in the lower left corner featuring small cherubic figures and floral ornament colored in pink, green, brown, and flesh tones, and a ribboned title panel in the upper right with ornamental flourishes in pink and green; fine black ink lines form a grid and many small place dots and labels across the map, and the overall image shows slight aging spots and small stains on the surrounding cream margin.

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La Saintonge vers le Midy auecq le Brovageais terre d'Arvert &C Gerard Valck 1651 52–1726 Pieter Schenck 1660–1711 publishers Nicolas Sanson 1600–1667 author map La Saintonge France Saintes 1711 cartography Amsterdam height 44.3 cm width 53.7 cm aged rectangular printed cream paper decorative border sits centered larger cream sheet map area landmasses coastlines filled pale yellow pink green brown hand coloring darker outlines red borders cartographic symbols tiny pictorial hills brown mark terrain several small ship illustrations pale blue-gray water areas map includes decorative cartouche lower left corner featuring small cherubic figures floral ornament colored brown flesh tones ribboned title panel upper right ornamental flourishes fine black ink lines form grid small place dots labels across image slight aging spots small stains surrounding cream margin.

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