Lot 08125

du Roy pour vingt ans. 1705″ scarce copper engraved map of Peloponese and part of Greece and the Greek Isles, with outline colour, published by De Fer. Sheet size: 74 x 53 cm. Map size: 53 x 42 cm. Excellent condition. Highly detailed map, which includes 12 inset plans of fortified towns and harbors for places within the bounds of the map. The dedication note that the map was prepared from Intelligence gathered from the Venetians and Ottoman Turks, with the plans of each of the forts bearing a date between 1685 and 1687. Zacharachis notes that most editions of the map have the dates in the lower right corner changed in manuscript. De Fer s maps are very rare. The maps were typically separately issued or bound into composite atlases by other publishers and there are very few surviving atlases which are De Fer s maps only. De Fer s maps are also noteworthy for being consistently updated. For example, there are 6 know editions of this map, plus 2 variant state with different titles. Ref. Zach. 1490/999.