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C1819
Nouvelle Espagne, Nouveau Mexique, Isles Antilles
Mapmaker:
French map of the Caribbean and America, with Spanish missions noted in "Nouveau Mexique". Note the map is undated and often stated to be C18th which is incorrect. The complete atlas has varying dates on a number of the maps … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Nouvelle Espagne, Nouveau Mexique, Isles Antilles
Date:
C1819
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Image Size:
320mm
x 260mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1819
Description:
French map of the Caribbean and America, with Spanish missions noted in "Nouveau Mexique". Note the map is undated and often stated to be C18th which is incorrect. The complete atlas has varying dates on a number of the maps but they were all published in 1819 and not individually at various dates.
Note: The maps in this atlas were only every issued with outline hand colouring.
From, ‘Nouvel Atlas Portatif Destin Principalement pour l’Instruction de la Jeunesse and Delamrache’, and published in Paris.
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.
