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C1751
Archipel des Indes Orientales, qui comprend Les Isles de la Sonde, Moluques et Philippenes……
Mapmaker:
The rare first issue of this spectactular large scale detailed chart of the East Indies by one the most exacting French cartographers of the C18th. Elaborate title cartouche at top left uncoloured as issued. The northern coast of ‘Nouvelle Hollande‘ … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Archipel des Indes Orientales, qui comprend Les Isles de la Sonde, Moluques et Philippenes……
Date:
C1751
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Minor water stains at sheet edge on top left and right and small tears to sheet edge, with wide margins, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Image Size:
605mm
x 485mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1751
Description:
The rare first issue of this spectactular large scale detailed chart of the East Indies by one the most exacting French cartographers of the C18th.
Elaborate title cartouche at top left uncoloured as issued.
The northern coast of ‘Nouvelle Hollande‘ with place names given by Abel Tasman’s second voyage on the ships Limmen, Zeemeeuw and the tender Braek. Tasman sailed eastwards along the south coast of New Guinea missing Torres Strait, and continued his voyage westwards along the north Australian coast.
From Atlas Universel, Par M. Robert Geographe ordinaire du Roy, et Par M. Robert De Vaugondy son fils Geographe ord. du Roy, et de S. M. Polonoise, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar, et Associe de L’Academie Royale des Sciences et belles Lettres de Nancy.
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688 - 1766)
Vaugondy inherited the firm of his uncle, Pierre Moullart-Sanson, in 1730. He quickly increased the business when he purchased the stock one of the leading French cartographers, Hubert Jaillot. He astutely combined his own additions to the maps he had purchased, bringing them up to date without the expense of creating new maps and engraving plates. Fittingly as a leading Parisian mapmaker of his day he was made Geographer to the King in 1730. Vaugondy was also one of the leading exponents of the French School of Theoretical Cartography and like Nicholas Bellin popularised the notion of an imaginary east coast of Australia.
