"Champagne - Comitatus Campania", Jansson, Jan

A great map detailing the famous Champagne region of France. Filled with hundreds of villages, forests, and rivers, the map locates the cities of Chalons, Reims, Vitry-le-Francois and Sainte Menehould. Finely engraved with minute detail and embellished with a bold title cartouche with two distance scales below and a coats of arms above. At lower left is a fine regional heraldic cartouche. Blank verso.

References: Van der Krogt (Vol. I) #4200:1A.2.

Condition: A

A crisp impression with full contemporary color on a bright sheet with wide margins. There are a few faint creases, as well as old paper repairs to a centerfold separation at bottom and a tear in the top margin. There are a few additional short tears and soiling along the edges of the sheet.