1628 Gerard Mercator Antique Map the Franche Comte de Bourgogne Region of France Scandinavia Tacitus wrote the most complete

Tacitus wrote the most complete account of Germania that still survives

This included the first descriptions by a European of the Casiquiare canal and the curare arrow poison prepared by the Amerindians

he was forced to leave the city by the lack of support by its inhabitants for the Habsburg pretender

who called this region Provincia Nostra (Our Province)

1628 Gerard Mercator Antique Map the Franche Comte de Bourgogne Region of France Scandinavia Tacitus wrote the most completeTitle : La Haute Bourgoigne Per Geradum Mercatorem Cum Privilegio Size: 21in x 17in (530mm x 430mm) Condition: (A) Very Good Condition Date : 1628 Ref #: 26144 Description: This original hand coloured copper plate engraved antique map of of the historical region of the Free County of Burgundy (Franche Comte de Bourgogne) of eastern France by Gerard Mercator was published by Henricus Hondius in the early 1628 French edition of Gerard Mercators Atlas.