LE VRAY PORTRAICT DE LA VILLE DE GRENOBLE
£295
Rare woodblock engraving of Grenoble by Belleforest in his French version of Munster's Cosmographia.
One of the earliest Plans / views of Grenoble available.Finely engraverd woodblock showing all the individual houses, municipal buidings; the walls with the moat etc. Detailed legend.
Very attractive birds eye view
Excellent hand colour
Very good condition
Publication La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde
Publisher, Nicolas Chesneau, Michel Sonnius, Paris, 1575
References: Pastoureau - Belleforest I-1 [47]; Fauser - #4997
code : M5442
Cartographer : BELLEFOREST François de Belleforest
Date : 1575 Paris
Size : 27*36 cms sheetr size 36.5*46.5 cms
availability : Available
Price : £295
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.
