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C1787
Asie divisee en ses Principaux Etats, Empires & Royames
Mapmaker:
Impressive large map of Asia by Robert de Vaugondy and published by Charles Francois Delamarche The map is elegantly decorated with a Rococo framed title at top left with an oriental figure and garlands of flowers. At lower left is a scale of distances … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Asie divisee en ses Principaux Etats, Empires & Royames
Date:
C1787
Mapmaker:
Engraver:
Charles Francois Delamarche
(1740 –
1817)
Condition:
Small repaired tear lower sheet edge, otherwise in good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
660mm
x 500mm
Paper Size:
740mm
x 567mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1787
Description:
Impressive large map of Asia by Robert de Vaugondy and published by Charles Francois Delamarche
The map is elegantly decorated with a Rococo framed title at top left with an oriental figure and garlands of flowers. At lower left is a scale of distances decorated with leaves and at right is a large panel with extensive notes on the geography.
Collections: National Library of Australia Bib ID4776420
References:
Moreland p.129, Sweet 207.
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.
