Bordeaux wine map, Cotes de Bourg, Bourgeais, 1949

Bordeaux wine map, Cotes de Bourg, Bourgeais, 1949This 1949 wine map of the Ctes de Bourg and Bourgeais presents a detailed mid twentieth century portrait of one of Bordeauxs historic right bank territories. Situated along the Gironde estuary north of the city of Bordeaux, the region is defined by rolling limestone and clay limestone plateaus overlooking the river. The map captures the appellation at a time when traditional viticulture and river commerce still shaped the economic life of these

Gerritsz collaborated with other notable cartographers and publishers of his time

It was created in 1912

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It is a reflection of an era marked by the influence of the Ottoman Empire

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Typography is crisp and methodical

and he often incorporated the latest geographical information available at the time