1780 – M. A. Moithey – La Pologne
2,700 €
Title: “La Pologne, comprenant le royaume de Prusse, les duchés de Lithuanie et de Curlande, avec ses limitrophes : le royaume de Bohême, le cercle de la haute Saxe, partie de la Russie, de la petite Tartarie, la Bessarabie, la Moklavie, la Transilvanie, etc., d’après les meilleurs auteurs / revue et corrigée par le Sr Moithey…”
Description:
Very rare, large and detailed map by Maurille Antoine Moithey, third edition, showing the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland, part of Prussia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine and surrounding regions. Title cartouche includes the coat of arms of Poland, Lithuania and Curland. The Baltic Sea is filled with a compass rose and marked meridian of Kraków: “Meridien de Cracovie”. On the map the prime meridian is described in the times of Nicolaus Copernicus: « Meridien de Cracovie» 38°E. The Kraków meridian is a forgotten, large geographical and astronomical object, similar to the Greenwich or Paris meridian. The Kraków meridian first appears in 1379 in astronomical tables created at the Jagiellonian University as a calculation of the famous Alfontine tables.
On the south west, next to the scale cartouche, text in a frame: ” La Pologne es tun Royaume Eclectif dont ¦ l’autorité Monarchique est Temperée par la ristocratie ¦ du Sénatet de la Noblesse, les grands Senatus sont l’archevesque de gnesnes quy estprimat et le Regent pendant Wnterreigne, l’archevesque de Leopol les Evesques de Cracovie Cujavie de Vilna. “.
Published by Crepy in Paris, 1780.
Cartographer: Maurille Antoine Moithey (1732-1805)
Sheet size: 78,3 x 54,0 cm
Year: 1780
Technique: copper engraving
Condition:
Good condition. Watermarked paper. Few wormholes restored.
This is an original antique map published in 1780 and NOT a modern copy or reprint
On your request I will provide a Certificate of Authenticity
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