Guillaume Sanson

(1633 - 1703)

Levée Par Ordre Exprès à L'Usage des Armées en Italie, Où Sons Exactement Marqués Les Grands Chemanins, Les Rouges des Impériaux & c., Par le Sr. Sanson, Geograp. Du Roy à Amsterdam, Chez J. Covense et C. Mortier. Copper engraving, coeval watercolor coloring, with the lower right -wing on the bottom right with soldiers, scale auctions and legend. As specified in the title in French at the top, the map was published for military purposes, specifically for the use of French armies in Italy, presumably during the Spanish succession war

Matrix 53x59 cm

Reprint of 1760 of the Covens & Mortier publishing house (taken after the death of Pieter Mortier) of the map published for the first time by Pieter Mortier in Amsterdam in 1703. Bibliography: Mantova nelle stampe, 333