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C1778
Mappe monde suivant la projection des cartes reduites.
Mapmaker:
C.18th French map of the world on Mercator’s Projection with decorative title. Australia and New Zealand are shown with the discoveries made by the Dutch on the west and northern coasts and with those of James Cook on the east … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Mappe monde suivant la projection des cartes reduites.
Date:
C1778
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Small stain at lower centre fold, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
390mm
x 240mm
Paper Size:
417mm
x 285mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1778
Description:
C.18th French map of the world on Mercator’s Projection with decorative title.
Australia and New Zealand are shown with the discoveries made by the Dutch on the west and northern coasts and with those of James Cook on the east coast made on his first voyage on the Endeavour, 1768–1771.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 2100786 (1761 edition / pre Cook)
National Library Australia: Bib ID 2100786 (1761 edition / pre Cook)
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.
