DESCRIPTION DU PAYS ARMORIQUE by Maurice BOUGUEREAU. "DESCRIPTION.DV.PAYS.ARMORIQVE.A.PRES.BRETAIGNE.". This map, said to have been engraved in the first half of 1591 after the one by d'Argentré published in "Histoire de Bretagne" in 1588, appears in the first atlas of France, Bouguereau's "Théâtre françoys". State with signature west of Nantes, no text on verso. Enhanced with watercolor. Tours, 1594. Height: 35.5 cm. Width: 47 cm (bowl). (Freckling and discoloration, small accidents and restorations in margins). Described and reproduced in Claude GAUDILLAT, Cartes anciennes de la Bretagne 1582-1800, Coop Breizh, Spézet, 1999, p. XXI, plate 7.

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