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C1766
Mappe-Monde Dressee pour l’Etude de la Geographie…
Very decorative c.18th French double hemisphere world map surrounded with a Rocco frame, putti and cartographic tools by Louis Brion De La Tour (fl 1756-1803). On either side are panels of text. Australia is shown joined to New Guinea and … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Mappe-Monde Dressee pour l’Etude de la Geographie…
Date:
C1766
Condition:
In good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
560mm
x 420mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1766
Description:
Very decorative c.18th French double hemisphere world map surrounded with a Rocco frame, putti and cartographic tools by Louis Brion De La Tour (fl 1756-1803).
On either side are panels of text. Australia is shown joined to New Guinea and the New Hebrides as original mapped by Nicholas Bellin in 1753. This representation of the Australian landmass significantly influenced the way the continent was depicted and used in almost all maps produced prior to the publication of James Cook’s discoveries of the east coast in 1773.
Louis Brion De La Tour (1756 - 1803)
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1803) was a French cartographer and geographer active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and produced a number of important maps and atlases, many of which were used in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is considered one of the most important French cartographers of his time.
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Louis Charles Desnos (1725 - 1805)
Desnos was both a globe maker and publisher of maps, appointed globe maker to the King of Denmark but spent most of his life working in Paris.
