La Hollande en 12 Feuilles. dont les six premières contiennent la Hollande Septentrionale ou la Partie Septentrionale du Comté de Hollande, le Texel, la Frise groningue Drente, et Partie de l'Over-Yssel, le tout dressé sur plusieurs cartes manuscrittes, et imprimées recueillies sur les lieux / par l'auteur. Dédié au Roy par... Le Rouge
Le Rouge, Georges-Louis
Category
Maps
Date
1748
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237312
Summary
Bibliographic description
v., plates:. maps,. agenda format. Accession no. 4538. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Louis XV, to whom the work is dedicated; pencil collation note on flyleaf: T. Sonner. Binding: eighteenth-century French red morocco; gilt straight-tooled border of small tools and arms of Louis XV; gilt spine with pomegranates, dark lettering-piece. Leaf-marbled endleaves. The original six large leaves have each been cut in four to make 24 maps and both sides of each map have been folded in to make the tall and narrow agenda format, suitable to go into a pocket or saddle-bag.
Makers and roles
Le Rouge, Georges-Louis