Plan of Château de Joux

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La Cluse-et-Mijoux carte

 

The Fort de Joux or Château de Joux is a castle, later transformed into a fort, located in La Cluse-et-Mijoux in the Doubs department in the Jura Mountains of France. It commands the mountain pass Cluse de Pontarlier.


 

 

Fine rare Antique engraved maps on paper

Total size each approx 7.1/2 x 9. inches (18.5 x 22.5 cm)

 

Drawn by Christophe Tassin

Engraved by Adam Perelle 1640-1695

 

Condition: good clean examples

small repair to one margins

 

Christophe Tassin (born in the early 1600s in France; died in 1660 in France), also known as Nicolas Tassin, Christophe Nicolas Tassin or Christophe Le Tassin, was a French cartographer, known for his atlases of France, Spain, Germany and Switzerland. Most of his work was published in Paris from 1633 to 1635. Among his colleagues were Melchior Tavernier (1594–1665), Sébastien Cramoisy (1584–1669) and Michael van Lochum (1601–1647). Little is known of his personal life.

 

 

 

 

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