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A rare and early woodcut view of Chartres, Exceptionally fine quality for a woodblock print.
Published in La Cosmographie Universelle de Tout le Monde, printed 1575 in two volumes in Paris by Nicolas Chesneau and Michel Sonnius with the French text by Francois de Belleforest.
Essentially it is a French version of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. But for the most part new woodblocks were made, and Chartres and Nice were included for the first and only time.
All maps and views of the Paris edition by Belleforest are very rare since there was one edition in one language only.
Good impression better than the pics.
Very good condition.
Ref: Pastoureau, Belleforest I-1 [8]
From: La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le Monde. Paris, Nicolas Chesneau - Michel Sonnius, 1575. (= French edition of Münster's
code : M5041
Cartographer : BELLEFOREST François de Belleforest
Date : 1575 Basel
Size : 31.5*39 cms
availability : Sold
Price : Sold
François de Belleforest was a French writer, translator and poet during the Renaissance. In 1568 he became historian of King Henry III, but had to give up soon because of inaccuracies. He worked as a writer and translator and transferred the Cosmography of Sebastian Munster into French. La Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde was published 1575 in Paris and was created in collaboration with the two Parisian publishers Nicolas Chesneau and Michel Sonnius. He has not used Sebastian Munster as sole source, several maps and views are based on Ortelius and Braun / Hogenberg, but also own work and unknown sources are found in the important work.
