Subject: Central Europe, Germany
Period: 1740 (circa)
Publication: Nouvel Atlas Geographique & Historique...
Color: Hand Color
Size:
8.5 x 6.3 inches
21.6 x 16 cm
A delicately engraved and highly detailed small map of central Europe extending to the Gulf of Venice in the south and to Budapest in the east. For his Nouvel Atlas, Leth made close copies of Jacques Chiquet's maps published in Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas in 1719.
References: Shirley (BL Atlases) T.LETH-1a.
Condition: B+
A dark impression with contemporary outline color, issued folding with light toning along the folds and short fold separations that have been repaired with paper on verso.