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This detailed and beautifully engraved map of the French/Italian Mediterranean coast from Nice to Montferrat, has no cartouche- the title is written in the top border, 3 scales, inset map at lower right of Nice.The plates were originally made by De l'Isle around 1700. Covens and Mortimer reissued them in the Atlas Novissimo (1730-40). Phillipe Buache, de l'Isle's successor, and son in law continued to reissue de l'Isle's maps in the later eighteenth century. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Fine condition, good margins, edges a little browned Size: 64 x 49 cm.