Scarce oversized map of Brabant, first published by Delisle in 1705 and here re-issued by Buache in 1745.
Covers the region west of the Meuse River and includes Bruxelles, Liege, Antwerp, Namur, Louvain, Ruremonde, and Breda, among others.
Shows towns, roads, rivers, lakes, canals, ancient aqueducts and other features.
Philippe Buache (1700-1773) was one of the most famous French geographers of the eighteenth century. Buache was married to the daughter of the eminent Guillaume Delisle and worked with his father-in-law, carrying on the business after Guillaume died. Buache gained the title geographe du roi in 1729 and was elected to the Academie des Sciences in the same year. Buache was a pioneering theoretical geographer, especially as regards contour lines and watersheds. He is best known for his works such as Considérations géographiques et physiques sur les découvertes nouvelles dans la grande mer (Paris, 1754).