Historic Map : Delisle de Sales Map of Germany, Bohemia and Poland, 1782, Vintage Wall Art

A fine 1782 map of Germany and Poland by Jean- Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales. The map covers Germanic territories from the Baltic Sea to the Gulf of Venice and from France to Russia. Includes Germany, Austria, Bohemia (Czech Republic), Poland, Lithuania, Prussia, Switzerland, Holland (the Netherlands), Belgium and Denmark. The map offers an extraordinary level of detail throughout, noting numerous towns, cities, rivers, roads and other topography, with mountains beautifully rendered in profile. Notes the imperial circles of Germany. The 'imperial circles,' covering most of what is now Central Europe, were administrative units created for tain x and defense purposes by the Holy Roman Empire in the 1500s. The Napoleonic Wars would, of course, dissolve the Holy Roman Empire and lead to the consolidation of Germany in 1871.

This map was issued as part of Delisle de Sales' Histoire des Hommes. Partie de l'Histoire Moderne. This volume is exceedingly rare as most of Sales' work was burnt under the censorship of heresy.