Tassin, Christophe Nicholas
1634

Carte de l'Isle de Oleron

Carte de l'Isle de Oleron

DESCRIPTION: Small, attractive map of the island of Oleron in the Bay of Biscay in Western France, just off the coast in the Atlantic Ocean. Oleron is France's second largest island, after Corsica.

Shows a great deal of interior detail as small as individual buildings, churches, windmills, and gardens. This map is a variant similar to but substantially different from the version published by Tassin in "Les Plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France" . This more scarce version contains a compass rose, the cartouche appears at bottom right, and the ships and interior island details are different.

Published by Tavernier in one of the many small-sized atlases created by Christophe Nicholas Tassin (d. 1660) . Tassin's background was as a military engineer, and he is best known for his nautical atlas of 30 sheets, dedicated to Richelieu, documenting France's coastline. Tassin's works contain topographic maps, often of militarily important sites, either sketched on site, composed from firsthand drawings by military engineers, or sometimes borrowed from other mapmakers. Plate 30.

CREATOR: Tassin, Christophe Nicholas

PUBLICATION DATE: 1634

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: France

BODY OF WATER: Atlantic Ocean

CONDITION: Very Good.  Very clean wide margins and no condition issues. On chain laid paper with a small watermark of a flower.

COLORING: None

ENGRAVER: 

SIZE: 6 " x 4 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 4

PRICE: $160

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