Europe: for the Elucidation of the Abbe …

Scarce pair of c.19th educational maps of Europe, from, A complete course of geography, by means of instructive games, invented by the Abbe Gaultier, by Jehoshaphat Aspin.

A Complete Course of Geography, by Means of Instructive Games invented by the Abbé Gaultier included ‘numerous emendations and additions, and an entire new set of maps, including the recent discoveries in the Arctic Regions’. Abbé Gaultier, an educationalist originally from Piedmont, had settled in France in 1780 and later fled the revolution to London. He died in 1818 but his Geography continued to be updated. In 1815 it was ‘collated with the author’s last Paris edition by Jehoshaphat Aspin’, a cartographer.  It also presents coloured maps with all details given and another set of the maps with only the outlines. Juliana Bayfield,  ‘Games of Virtue and Learning’, The La Trobe Journal, 1997

Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 4847242
David Rumsey Collection: List No: 0294.000
State Library New South Wales: Call Number F910/3
University Queensland: 61UQ_ALMA
Macquarie University NSW: MMS ID 99194874510802171
British Library London: System number: 004962871 (1813 edition)