Languedoc, de Foix et de Roussilon, Carte des Gouvernements, avec la Partie Orientale du Gouv. de Guienne. With charming large title-cartouche by J. Arrivet decorated with fruit + grain with his invenit and engraver’s monogram and miles indicator. Regional map by Rigobert Bonne (Raucourt, Ard., 1727 – 1795). Engraving colored in outline. A Paris Chez Lattré rue S^t. Jacques a la ville de Bordeaux 1771. 44.1 x 35.8 cm.

(Rob Kieffer in the FAZ of August 10, 2006). – Eastern frontier the Rhone with estuary + Camargue, marked here the shore-line expanded visibly into the Gulf between 1704 + 1758. Western bound on the line of Toulouse, the former capital of Languedoc, and in the south it’s going on into Spain.
Offer no. 15,188 / EUR  185. (c. US$ 257.) + shipping

“ I am curious as to the history of this (original Ridinger printing-)plate (just I bought) and the others you have offered. Did you purchase them from the Ridinger estate (indirectly, indeed) or a private collector? These are truly rare one of a kind pieces ”

(Mr. L. A. F., October 28, 2003)