Nicolas de Fer:The Royal Geographer

The French cartographer and engraver, Nicolas de Fer, was a master at creating maps that were works of art. The maps that he published were printed during the Baroque period when the decorative arts were characterized by ornate detail. De Fer’s detailed maps and atlases were valued more for their decorative content than their geographical …

de Fer: Ausbourg. Ville Imperial, Germany, Bavaria, Augsburg, 1696

Going for Baroque: The Iconography of the Ornamental Map - Harvard

La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos

Nicolas de Fer, La Terre Sainte, The Holy Land

Title: See Detail in Description [The Only Known Set of Four Continental Wall Maps by Nicolas de Fer. All early states: America (1698), Africa (1698),

A Previously Unobtainable Set of Magnificent Wall Maps by Nicolas de Fer, 1695-1698

Partie meridionale d Afrique. by Fer, de Nicolas ( 1646 - 1720

18th century cartography

Of Shattered Jade and Broken Pottery: Solving Tatiana's Puzzles

Nicolas de Fer, La Terre Sainte, The Holy Land

France Fortifications, BastionTrompette by de Fer 1705

18th century cartography, Page 2

Original Page of Atlas l'atlas Curieux by Nicholas De Fer

La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos

Of Shattered Jade and Broken Pottery: Solving Tatiana's Puzzles

18th century cartography