Identifier: studiesincartobi00ford (find matches)
Title: Studies in carto-bibliography, British and French, and in the bibliography of itineraries and road-books
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Fordham, Herbert George, Sir, 1854-1929
Subjects: Cartography Cartography -- Great Britain Cartography -- France Great Britain -- Maps Bibliography Ireland -- Maps Bibliography
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ridgeshire and the Great Level of the Fens,and of the maps of the County of Hertford. I have already enlarged, in the Introduction to the study ofthe Cartography of the English and Welsh Counties, on thedebt cartographic science owes to the Low Countries, andhave generally exemplified that debt in relation to the earlymaps of the English Counties, and I need not follow up thesubject here. At the same time it is perhaps as well to point out that toFlanders, and to the provinces of the north of France borderingon that country, France itself is almost entirely indebted for hergeographers, and her cartographic artists and engravers. It isdifficult to recall the name of any French geographer of noteof the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who was born westof the Seine. Guillaume Postel, it is true, was a native ofLower Normandy; Maurice Bouguereau, who is identifiedwith the first French atlas, belonged to Tours ; but Postel,though a great traveller (for his time), and a man of omnivorous
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CARTOGRAPHY OF FRANCE, 1570-1757 129 learning, was not specially a cartographer, and Bouguereauwas only the editor and printer of his atlas, formed, in themain, of copies from a variety of maps of earlier dates. While the starting-point in time of the publication inFrance of any series of provincial maps is 1594, marked bythe appearance of Bouguereaus famous atlas, the TheatreFrancois, published by him at Tours in that year, we mustgo back to 1570, to Antwerp, and to the celebrated Plantinpress in that city and the first publication of a set of mapsof the French provinces, appearing in the Theatrttin OrbisTerrarwm of Abraham Ortelius, for the beginnings in thismatter. The same year saw the impression of Postels mapof France^ of which the unique copy which has sur^dved toour days may be seen in the map-room of the BibliotheqiieNaiionale in Paris. But the former publication is connectedwith the town of Tours, for Christopher Plantin was a nativeof one of the adjoining villages, though i

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