Les Isles Britanique ou se Trouvent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande . . .
DE FER, Nicolas

Les Isles Britanique ou se Trouvent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande . . .

Paris
1706
Size : 48 x 45,5 cm
Color : Outlines Colored at the time
Condition : A+
Technique : Copper engraving
Reference : 442-17
€225.00

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Description

Rare map of the British Isles by De Fer.

The map is illustrated with an elegant decorative title and scale cartouche and a compass rose.

DE FER, Nicolas

Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720), was an engraver, geographer, titled geographer of the King and active from 1687 to 1720. He began his apprenticeship at the age of 12 with an engraver. In 1687, he took over the map trade from his mother after the death of his father, Antoine de Fer, a print and map merchant who died in 1673, and executed more than 600 maps or plans: frontier maps, maps of the new conquests of Louis XIV, cities fortified by Vauban, voyages and discoveries of new territories. In his main work, the Atlas Curieuse, he published several maps of the Americas and the West Indies. At his death, his sons-in-law, Guillaume Danet and Jacques-François Bénard  also engravers, continued Nicolas de Fer's activity on their own account.