La Garde-Chambonas’ Voyage to Moscow Austria Mercator edited his maps from

Mercator edited his maps from the best available sources

sur l’armee Espagnolle commandee par l’Archduc Leopold

although most of the European knowledge of the region in the first part of the 18th century was via Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries

‘for official use

This Dutch ‘fool’s cap’ map satirises the bursting of the financial bubbles of 1720

La Garde-Chambonas’ Voyage to Moscow Austria Mercator edited his maps fromLa garde chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles de Messence, comte deVoyage dans quelques parties de l'Europe, par le comte de Lagarde Seconde dition Little is known of La Garde Chambonas: he is described on the title page as 'citoyen polonais', but appears to have spent much of his life in London. According to the Bibliothque Nationale de France database, he was born in Paris in 1783, and (probably) died in 1853; he was not the son of, but was presumably