Description generale de toute la France

Description:

Relief shown pictorially. Bar scale on map given in "Milliaria Gallica communia". Imprint taken from atlas. Title at top, decorative cartouche with descriptive text, coat of arms, crown with fleur de lis. "Ceste description se doit mettre aps le fueil. 160." Map based on Ortelius' first modern map of the German Empire, 1570, and includes the same decorative cartouche, ship at sea, and coat of arms. Appears in Belleforet's Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde, 1575, French edition of Münster's Cosmographia universalis, 1544-1628.

Creator:

Belleforest, François de, 1530-1583, Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552, and Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598

Publisher:

[Belleforest]

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Date Issued:

1575

Spatial Coverage:

Europe and France

Rights:

Images from the The Renaissance Exploration Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/zx416rm0204