C1763

Mappe-Monde Dressee sur les Nouvelles Decouvertes dont les Dernieres ont ete Faites en 1741,

Superbly c.18th embellished double hemisphere world map showing Australia with the discoveries made by Abel Tasman on two voyages 1742-4. The embellishments include; female personifications of the continents in the lower area set within a panoramic landscape, lunar and solar … Read Full Description

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S/N: WM-SHIRLEY-613–437813
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Full Title:

Mappe-Monde Dressee sur les Nouvelles Decouvertes dont les Dernieres ont ete Faites en 1741,

Date:

C1763

Condition:

In good condition, with centre fold as issued.

Technique:

Hand coloured copper engraving.

Image Size: 

338mm 
x 248mm

Paper Size: 

378mm 
x 291mm
AUTHENTICITY
Mappe-Monde Dressee sur les Nouvelles Decouvertes dont les Dernieres ont ete Faites en 1741, - Antique Map from 1763

Genuine antique
dated:

1763

Description:

Superbly c.18th embellished double hemisphere world map showing Australia with the discoveries made by Abel Tasman on two voyages 1742-4. The embellishments include; female personifications of the continents in the lower area set within a panoramic landscape, lunar and solar calendars at top centre and Apollo riding his chariot at top left.  As Rodney Shirley states; “the decorative engraving surrounding the hemispheres is exceptionally detailed and complex….”

References:
Shirley, R. The Mapping of the World Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700. London 1987: 613, ill. Plate 421.

Jean de Beaurain (1696 - 1771)

French geographer who at the age of nineteen, came to Paris and studied geography under Pierre Moulart-Samson, geographer to the king, a title which Beaurain obtained at the age of twenty-five. A perpetual calendar, ecclesiastical and civil, which he published in 1724, made him known to Louis XV, for whom he made a large number of maps and plans.

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