PALACE OF LOUIS XIV FRANCE 1705 DE FER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED VIEW ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP OF PALACE OF LOUIS XIV old times rare books and maps old times rare books and maps (19812) 100% positiveSeller's other itemsSeller's other itemsContact seller US $18.50 PALACE OF LOUIS XIV FRANCE 1705 DE FER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED VIEW Description La place de Louis le Grand. Description: Striking and highly detailed interesting 1705 Nicolas de Fer's copper engraved view of palace of Louis XVI, France. The view shows the palace, square and several inhabitants. Date: 1705 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 39,9 x 27,8 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Map uncolored. Wide margins. Small marginal tears. Small warmings. Paper with waterstains.Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: Nicholas de Fer (1646 - October 25, 1720) was a French cartographer and publisher, the son of cartographer Antoine de Fer. He apprenticed with the Paris engraver Louis Spirinx, producing his first map, of the Canal du Midi, at 23. When his father died in June of 1673 he took over the family engraving business and established himself on Quai de L'Horloge, Paris, as an engraver, cartographer, and map publisher. De Fer was a prolific cartographer with over 600 maps and atlases to his credit. De Fer's work, though replete with geographical errors, earned a large following because of its considerable decorative appeal. In the late 17th century, De Fer's fame culminated in his appointment as Geographe de le Dauphin, a position that offered him unprecedented access to the most up to date cartographic information. This was a partner position to another simultaneously held by the more scientific geographer Guillaume De L'Isle, Premier Geograph de Roi. Despite very different cartographic approaches, De L'Isle and De Fer seem to have stepped carefully around one another and were rarely publicly at odds. Upon his death of old age in 1720, Nicolas was succeeded by two of his sons-in-law, who also happened to be brothers, Guillaume Danet (who had married his daughter Marguerite-Geneviиve De Fer), and Jacques-Franзois Bйnard (Besnard) Danet (husband of Marie-Anne De Fer), and their heirs, who continued to publish under the De Fer imprint until about 1760. It is of note that part of the De Fer legacy also passed to the engraver Remi Rircher, who married De Fer's third daughter, but Richer had little interest in the business and sold his share to the Danet brothers in 1721.