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This is a scarce 1674 map of the Duchy of Luin xembourg by Alexis-Hubert Jaillot. It covers Luin xembourg along with parts of neighboring Belgium, France and Germany from Revin in France east to Blankenheim in Germany and from Spa in Belgium, south as far as Bouzonville in France. The printed date on this map, 1674, has been changed to 1684 in manuscript. This is however the first edition of the map to appear in this state. The map renders the entire region in extraordinary detail offering both topographical and political information with forest and mountains beautifully rendered in profile.
This map was made after the end of the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) when the Low Countries were divided into the United Provinces and Southern Netherland, of which Luin xembourg became part of. This portion of the Netherlands was known successively as the Habsburg Netherlands, the Spanish Netherlands, and finally Austrian Netherlands until in 1795 Napoleonic forces invaded and set up a new French client state, the Batavian Republic.
The map includes a beautifully illustrated title cartouche in the lower left quadrant. Created by Hubert Jaillot and Guillaume Sanson in 1674.
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