[Atlas]. [France]. BLAEU (Guillaume et Jean). [Extract from: - Lot 60

[Atlas]. [France]. BLAEU (Guillaume et Jean). [Extract from:] Le Théâtre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas contenant les chartes et descriptions de tous les païs de la terre. Amsterdam, apud G. et J. Blaeu, 1635. 44 (of 47) copper-engraved plates, in sheets, approx. 50 x 39 cm, on sheet approx. 53 x 45 cm; (sustained wetness; 3 maps lacking). 44 copper-engraved and colored maps from the French section of the first French edition of Guillaume and Jean Blaeu's Atlas, published in 1635. French text on verso. This volume contains 2 maps of ancient France based on the maps of Ortelius: Gallia vetus et Typus Galliae veteris, the map of Gaul according to Strabo & other ancients. The others illustrate the provinces of France: Savoy, Dauphiné, Avignon, Principality of Orange, Lyon, Orleans, Limousin, Burgundy, Touraine, Brittany, Maine, Normandy, Paris, etc. (Van der Krogt, II, [2:111.1]).