The Duc de Chaulnes Atlas: A Seventeenth-Century French Atlas of Manuscript Military Maps of British and Continental Towns and Cities in the British Library

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis note concerns an atlas of military maps dating from the middle of the seventeenth century. Almost certainly compiled in France, it came into the possession of the British Museum (now Library) in the early nineteenth century but seems never to have been described at length. Although manuscript military atlases are not rare, this one unusually includes maps of twenty-nine British and Irish towns and cities that seem to be scarcely known.