"Sanson D Abbeville Metz Moselle 1656 Geographic Map By Nicolas Sanson"
serious geographical map and dating from 1656 by Nicolas SANSON (1600-1667) titled: mediomatrici Archidiac of METZ of VIC and MARSAL in the eveche of METZ at the author 1656 in paris card named mediomatrici (latin) The mediomatric were a people of Gaule Belgium, the current French department of the Moselle corresponds to most of their territory. Nicolas SANSON d Abbeville is one of the greatest geographer of the 17 th century this card has preserved beautiful watercolor colors may be posterior to the map but very old to be rare it is in very good state of preservation Format bowl 51.2 x 43 cm origin private collection 
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