La Garde-Chambonas’ Voyage to Moscow Austria This Dutch ‘fool’s cap’ map

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

Moesiarumque

and Samuel Pepys was among his customers

Our example of this map of Ancient Spain was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press

La Garde-Chambonas’ Voyage to Moscow Austria This Dutch ‘fool’s cap’ mapLa 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