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C1750
L’Empire du Japon divise en sept principales parties, savoir, Ochio….
Mapmaker:
Early issue of this large scale c.18th map of Japan by Giles Didier Robert De Vaugondy. The map is divided into sixty six kingdoms and includes an elaborate decorative title cartouche in the Chiniosire style. From Santini’s Atlas Universel … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
L’Empire du Japon divise en sept principales parties, savoir, Ochio….
Date:
C1750
Mapmaker:
Engraver:
Francesco Santini
Condition:
Some discoloration at top, otherwise in good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
530mm
x 465mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1750
Description:
Early issue of this large scale c.18th map of Japan by Giles Didier Robert De Vaugondy. The map is divided into sixty six kingdoms and includes an elaborate decorative title cartouche in the Chiniosire style.
From Santini’s Atlas Universel Drese Sur Les Meilleures Cartes Moderne, Venice.
References:
Lutz, W. Japan, a Cartographic Vision.New York 1994 :: OAG 115 Pg 224.
Collections:
David Rumsey Collection: Publication List No: 3353.000
Lutz, W. Japan, a Cartographic Vision.New York 1994 :: OAG 115 Pg 224.
Collections:
David Rumsey Collection: Publication List No: 3353.000
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.
