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Mappemonde ou Description du Globe Terrestre; dressee sur les memoires les plus nouveaux, et assujettie aux observations astronomiques.

  • ARTIST: Didier Robert de Vaugondy

  • PUBLISHER: Published by Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, Paris.

  • MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving with handcolored outlines,

    DATE: 1752

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 18 1/4 x 27 5/8" (463 x 703 mm).

  • DESCRIPTION: A beautiful double hemisphere world map from Robert de Vaugondy's "Atlas Universal." This map shows the voyages of Anson in 1740, l'Aigle et la Marie, 1738-9, and Galion Na. Seignora - the galleon routes to/from Acapulco - Manila, 1743. New Zealand is partially shown, and Nourvelle Hollande (Australia) contains a very strange line on its east coast labeled "Cotes conjectures." Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1686-1766) and his son Didier (1723-1786) were descended from the famous N. Sanson family of cartographers.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition. Faint original outline hand coloring

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  • CATEGORIES: Maps