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C1755
Partie de L’Amérique Septent? Qui Comprend La Nouvelle France ou le Canada, ….
Mapmaker:
Important French map based issued just prior to the Indian wars. The map extends from Newfoundland and the eastern part of Canada. There is a large inset map of the Great Lakes which is one of the most up to … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Partie de L’Amérique Septent? Qui Comprend La Nouvelle France ou le Canada, ….
Date:
C1755
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with centre folded as issued. Wide margins.
Technique:
Copper engraving, with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
610mm
x 480mm
Paper Size:
665mm
x 510mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1755
Description:
Important French map based issued just prior to the Indian wars. The map extends from Newfoundland and the eastern part of Canada. There is a large inset map of the Great Lakes which is one of the most up to date of the region. The map records the boundaries of the Great Lakes and Canada at the time of the American Revolutionary War.
Refrence: Kershaw 356
From
Atlas Universel, Par M. Robert Geographe ordinaire du Roy
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.
