A scarce two-sheet map of Alsace
SANDRART, Jacob von.
Alsatiae Superioris et Inferioris accuratissima Geographica Descriptio. Correcta et aucta Basileae anno MDCCII. Recusa Norimbergae eodem anno.
Nuremberg, c.1702. Two sheets conjoined, total 415 x 1215mm.
A fine example.
A map of Alsace, orientated with north to the right, showing the Rhine from Speyer south past Strasbourg to Basel and Rheinfelden. Top right is a Latin-text description within an elaborate martial cartouche. The map was compiled five years after the Treaty of Ryswick (1697) confirmed Strasbourg as a French possession.
Stock ID : 21118
£1,300
£1,300
A scarce two-sheet map of Alsace
SANDRART, Jacob von.
Alsatiae Superioris et Inferioris accuratissima Geographica Descriptio. Correcta et aucta Basileae anno MDCCII. Recusa Norimbergae eodem anno.
Nuremberg, c.1702. Two sheets conjoined, total 415 x 1215mm.
A fine example.
A map of Alsace, orientated with north to the right, showing the Rhine from Speyer south past Strasbourg to Basel and Rheinfelden. Top right is a Latin-text description within an elaborate martial cartouche. The map was compiled five years after the Treaty of Ryswick (1697) confirmed Strasbourg as a French possession.
Stock ID : 21118
£1,300
£1,300