Carte de Franche Comte.
Views of cities (15 x 35 mm or smaller) and 1 map (17 x 29 mm) spread out in front of a tree with branches; pictorial scene with people at ground level.
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| Format: | Map |
| Language: | French German |
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[Frankfurt am Main] :
[Johann Adam Jung],
[1719]
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| Summary: | Views of cities (15 x 35 mm or smaller) and 1 map (17 x 29 mm) spread out in front of a tree with branches; pictorial scene with people at ground level. Depicts towns and territories ceded to the French by the Dutch and Spanish in the Treaties of Nijmegen, a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Nijmegen between August 1678 and December 1679 after the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678). France took control over the region of the Franche-Comté (the Imperial County of Burgundy). Also further territories of the Spanish Netherlands, including the town of Saint-Omer, the lands of Cassel, Aire and Ypres in southwestern Flanders, the Bishopric of Cambrai, as well as the towns of Valenciennes and Maubeuge in the southern County of Hainaut. |
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| Item Description: | Copperplate print. Title from map. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in: Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises. Bd. 5. "Fig. lxxiii"--Above image. Valencienes [Valenciennes, France] -- Cambray [Cambrai, France] -- Mont Cassel [Cassel, France] -- St. Omer [Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France] -- Aire [Aire-sur-la-Lys, France] -- Conde [Condé-sur-l'Escaut, France] -- Ypres [Ieper, Belgium] -- Bailleul [Belgium] -- Dinan [Dinant, Belgium] -- Bouchain [France] -- Poperinghen [Poperinge, Belgium] -- Varuich -- Bauay [Bavay, France] -- Fribourg -- Varneton [Warneton, Belgium] -- Maubeuge [France]. The Cushing Library copy is part of the Ronald L. and V. Jane Woellhof Rare Map Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 16 views and 1 map on 1 sheet : hand colored ; image 15 x 11 cm |