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Rare first edition of Hugo Allard's map of Poland and Lithuania, based upon G. le Vasseur de Beauplan.
The map is in fantastic original English color, which is quite distinctive from the color being added to the maps in the Netherlands in the middle of the 17th Century.
Hugo (or Huych) Allard (or Allardt) (1627–1684 or '91) was a draughtsman, engraver, and painter during the Dutch Golden Age of cartography. Based in Tournai and Amsterdam, he was the founder of a prominent family of Dutch mapmakers, publishers, and print sellers. Allard set up his cartography business around 1645, and his first works were mostly reissues of earlier maps. Although not as prominent as the Blaeu family or Henricus Hondius and Jan Janssonius, Hugo Allard’s work, from about 1640 to 1680, is considered to be just as fine in quality. His output was relatively small, and his maps were mostly published as loose, separate issues, but they were well-designed and finely engraved. After Allard’s death, he left his business to his son, Carel. There is some confusion about when he died; some sources state 1684, others say 1691.
![[Gulf of Finland / Narva / Vyborg] Pascaarte vande Lijflandsche zee, van Revel en Elsenvos tot het uijterste der Oost-zee](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/75076.jpg)
![[Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria] (La discrittione della Transylvania et parte del l'Ungaria, et il simil della Romania)](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/59225.jpg)
![Геологическая карта Украинской и Молдавской ССР [Geological Map of Ukrainian and Moldovan SSRs]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/92677.jpg)
