Old Military Map of Bavaria, Germany by Jaillot, 1708: Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Danube, Blenheim world atlas nostalgic gift

nostalgic gift

reveal the intricate layout of streets and the burgeoning development of the time

this is the first ever printed map of the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire published by Christopher Saxton

was an important center of royal power

Painted in 1856

Old Military Map of Bavaria, Germany by Jaillot, 1708: Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Danube, Blenheim world atlas nostalgic giftTheatre de la Guerre en Baviere &c., created in 1708 by Alexis Hubert Jaillot, casts Bavaria as the stage on which Europes rivalries played out. Jaillot arranges counties, rivers, and passes into a legible web of strategy: the Danube flows like a central artery, the Isar and Lech thread southward toward the Alpine forelands, while pictorial hills and forests locate natural redoubts and open corridors. Colored boundary lines and a decorative border