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[ATLAS]. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY Gilles (1686-1766) et Didier (1723-1786)
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[ATLAS]. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY Gilles (1686-1766) et Didier (1723-1786)
Atlas Universel, By M. Robert Geographe ordinaire du Roy, and By M. Robert De
Vaugondy his son Geographe ord. du Roy, and by S. M. Polonoise, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Letters of Nancy,
With Privilege Du Roy, 1757. In Paris, Chez Les Auteurs, Quay de l'Horloge du Palais, Boudet Libraire Imprimeur du Roi, rue St. Jacques, 1757.
Large volume folio (563 x 425 mm), 1 ff.
Warning - 32 pp. - 110 gouache-coloured double-page plates mounted on tabs. Full calf, period spotted calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red morocco title piece, red edges, marbled paper endpapers.
Superb first edition of this famous atlas composed of a superb title-frontispiece engraved by Baquoy, a warning by Robert de Vaugondy, a Historical Preface and 110 maps engraved on double pages (some folded), with hand-coloured outlines, handwritten titles and numbering in ink (from 1 to 101 on the back of the maps).
Atlas sought after in particular for its maps of the West Indies. Gilles and his son Didier ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, the King's geographers, descend from a line of cartographers who began their career at the beginning of the 17th century and were still active at the end of the 18th century.
Their work is on a par with the work of their illustrious ancestor Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville, who revolutionised French cartography in the first half of the 17th century. The present atlas, composed of 110 maps of
France, Europe and the World, remains one of the most important French works of this scale in the 18th century.
The maps were engraved according to the most recent knowledge of the time| the atlas contains in particular several important maps of America (North America, Canada, English Possessions in America and the Ohio, Virginia and Maryland Rivers, South America, the West Indies, Santo Domingo and Martinique) and of the Middle and Far East (Turkey of Europe, Asia, Russian Empire in Europe, Russian
Atlas Universel, By M. Robert Geographe ordinaire du Roy, and By M. Robert De
Vaugondy his son Geographe ord. du Roy, and by S. M. Polonoise, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Letters of Nancy,
With Privilege Du Roy, 1757. In Paris, Chez Les Auteurs, Quay de l'Horloge du Palais, Boudet Libraire Imprimeur du Roi, rue St. Jacques, 1757.
Large volume folio (563 x 425 mm), 1 ff.
Warning - 32 pp. - 110 gouache-coloured double-page plates mounted on tabs. Full calf, period spotted calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red morocco title piece, red edges, marbled paper endpapers.
Superb first edition of this famous atlas composed of a superb title-frontispiece engraved by Baquoy, a warning by Robert de Vaugondy, a Historical Preface and 110 maps engraved on double pages (some folded), with hand-coloured outlines, handwritten titles and numbering in ink (from 1 to 101 on the back of the maps).
Atlas sought after in particular for its maps of the West Indies. Gilles and his son Didier ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, the King's geographers, descend from a line of cartographers who began their career at the beginning of the 17th century and were still active at the end of the 18th century.
Their work is on a par with the work of their illustrious ancestor Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville, who revolutionised French cartography in the first half of the 17th century. The present atlas, composed of 110 maps of
France, Europe and the World, remains one of the most important French works of this scale in the 18th century.
The maps were engraved according to the most recent knowledge of the time| the atlas contains in particular several important maps of America (North America, Canada, English Possessions in America and the Ohio, Virginia and Maryland Rivers, South America, the West Indies, Santo Domingo and Martinique) and of the Middle and Far East (Turkey of Europe, Asia, Russian Empire in Europe, Russian