Print from steel engraving titled „Carte de la Grande Bretagne“.

Author/compiler – Buffier.

Published in Paris, France in M. DCC. LXV. – 1765.

Notes: Septentrion/Orient/Midy/Occident, pag. 222.

From „Geographie Universelle, exposee dans les differentes methodes qui peuvent abreger l‘etude, & faciliter l‘ufage de cette Science. Avec le fecours des Vers artificiels. Par le P. Buffier, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Neuvieme edition. Du Fonds de P. F. Giffart. A Paris.Chez H. C. De Hansy, libraire, rue S. Jacques; pres les Mathurins, a Sainte Therefe. M. DCC. LXV. – 1765.

Claude Buffier (25 May 1661 – 17 May 1737), French philosopher, historian and teacher, was born in Poland of French parents, who returned to France and settled at Rouen soon after his birth. He was educated at the Jesuit college there, and he was received into the Order at the age of nineteen. A dispute with the archbishop compelled him to leave Rouen. After a short stay in Rome, he returned to Paris to the college of the Jesuits, where he spent the rest of his life. He seems to have been a good teacher and lucid expositor.

Great Britain also known as Britain is an island in the North Atlantic off the north-west coast of continental Europe. The island of Ireland lies to its west.The island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constituting most of its territory: most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island, with their respective capital cities, London, Edinburgh, and Cardiff. Politically, Great Britain commonly refers to the island together with a number of surrounding islands, which constitute the territory of England, Scotland, and Wales. The Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the Union of Scotland and England (which already comprised the present-day England and Wales) in 1707. More than a hundred years before, in 1603, King James VI, King of Scots, had inherited the throne of England, but it was not until 1707 that the Parliaments of the two countries agreed to form a single kingdom. Subsequently, in 1801, Great Britain united with the neighbouring Kingdom of Ireland, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. When five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom in 1922, the state was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Approx. image size 17, 8 x 13, 9/20, 9 x 16, 5 cm.

Condition: good.