A scarce late 17th century map of Piedmont & Savoy

NOLIN, Jean Baptiste.

Les Etats de Savoye et de Piemont...
Paris, 1691. Original outline colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 810 x 615mm.

A fine example.

A large and decorative map with a fine baroque title cartouche with allegorical figures, four town plans and a prospect of Chambery, and inset plans of Turin and Vercelli, and a view of the fortress of Verrve. The map was published to illustrate the theatre of the Nine Years' War, in which the French fought to keep control over the area.


Stock ID : 11391