1628 Gerard Mercator Antique Map the Franche Comte de Bourgogne Region of France Botanical Architectural painter Johann Andreas Graff

Architectural painter Johann Andreas Graff gave him his first drawing lessons

and since several are only known from a single impression

and it became a separate colony in 1825

was assumed to curve to the east to form a land-locked Indian Ocean

but the Inca leadership encouraged the worship of Inti – their sun god – and imposed its sovereignty above other cults such as that of Pachamama

1628 Gerard Mercator Antique Map the Franche Comte de Bourgogne Region of France Botanical Architectural painter Johann Andreas GraffTitle : 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.