COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793
Author:
Janvier, Jean
Date:
1760
Short Title:
Mappe-monde ou description du globe terrestre
Publisher:
Chez Lattre
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
47
Obj Width cm:
65
Scale 1:
110,000,000
Note:
Engraved double hemisphere map of the world. Continents outlined in hand color. Relief shown pictorially. Showing Hemisphere Occidental and Hemisphere Oriental. Has ornamental cartouches.
World Area:
World
Subject:
Classical
Full Title:
Mappe-monde ou description du globe terrestre, assujettie aux observations astronomiques par le Sr. Janvier Geographe. Avec privilege du Roy. 1774 ... (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:
11335.008
Page No:
4
Series No:
8
Publication Author:
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793
Publication Author:
Janvier, Jean
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:
11335008.jp2
Authors:
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793; Janvier, Jean
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Mappe-monde ou description du globe terrestre
