COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793
Author:
Janvier, Jean
Author:
Vezou, Louis Claude de
Date:
1760
Short Title:
Mappe-Monde Geo Spherique
Publisher:
Chez Lattre
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
50
Obj Width cm:
75
Scale 1:
None shown
Note:
Engraved geo-spherical world map as an introduction to the geography, hydrography and the armillary sphere. Hand colored. Information and commentaries are distributed around and within the hemispheres, which imaged winds and rums, seasons, longitudes and latitudes, climate zones and the people with inhabited areas.
World Area:
Western Hemisphere
World Area:
Eastern Hemisphere
Subject:
Classical
Full Title:
Mappe-Monde Geo Spherique ou Nouvelle Carte Ideale Du Globe Terrestre Pour servir d'Introduction a la Geographie, L'Hydrographie, et a la Sphere Armillaire dans laquelle on voit le rapport que toutes ces sciences ont entre elles ou avec les cieux par le moyen des cercles, des lignes et des points qui y sont imagines, dediee et presentee au roy par... Louis Claude de Vezou, geographe ; grave par Lattre.1760. (to accompany) Atlas Geographique contenant la Mappemonde et les quatre parties, avec les differents Etats, avec apprpbation & privilage du Roy MDCC.LXIII (1763).
List No:
11335.006
Page No:
2
Series No:
6
Publication Author:
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793
Publication Author:
Janvier, Jean
Publication Author:
Vezou, Louis Claude de
Pub Date:
1763
Pub Title:
Atlas Geographique contenant la Mappemonde et les quatre parties, avec les differents Etats, avec apprpbation & privilage du Roy MDCC.LXIII. A Paris, Chez Lattre Graveur, ordinaire de Mgr. le Dauphin, de Mgr. le Duc d'Orleans et de la Ville, rue St. Jacques, vis-a-vis celle de la Parcheminerie, a la Ville de Bordeaux.
Pub Note:
Atlas containing 51 maps; 49 folded leaves with 2 two preliminary maps inserted from other copies, 6 maps inserted at the end, table of contents and text. This is the folio version of Lattre's smaller atlas, see our 2612.000. Maps are hand-color in outline, many with additional original hand-color in part, with title cartouche, dated between 1759-1784, one map date 1816 later added to the atlas. Maps are made by De l'Isle, Buache, Janvier, Rizzi Zannoni, St. Angelo, Bonne, Jaillot, Robert de Vaugondy, and Lattre. Showing political and administrative boundaries, rivers, place names, canals, fortifications, forests, lakes, etc. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Bound in brown marbled half leather covers with title "Atlas Geogra" in gilt on spine. Lattre's dedication of the map to Benjamin Franklin, who as American ambassador to France, represented the United States at the peace negotiations.
Pub List No:
11335.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
50
Pub Height cm:
56
Pub Width cm:
43
Image No:
11335006.jp2
Authors:
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793; Janvier, Jean; Vezou, Louis Claude de
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Mappe-Monde Geo Spherique
