c1795 CANADA LOUISIANE ETATS UNIS Louisana USA North America Map (LM-20)

VAUGONDY, Robert de

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1795 CANADA LOUISIANE, ETATS-UNIS Par Robert de Vaugondy Geographe.A fascinating map of the US, Canada and Louisiana Territory, shortly before the purchase of the Louisiana Territory by the US, bearing the date of the 3rd year of the French Republic. Includes a large inset of the NW Coast of North America, showing a large Sea of the West and continuous water routes to Hudson Bay from the Pacific, as well as an out dated Straits of Anian, Quivera, Teguaio and other mid 18th Century Western and Northwestern cartographic features. Nice detail in the US and Canada. Many Indian Tribes and French Forts located in the Old Northwest and west of the Mississippi. Cansez is shown. Florida is an Archipelago. An interesting map showing the transitional knowledge and powers in North America.Overall size approx 43cmx 31cm. Condition is excellent with central fold as issued. Original/early hand colour.In 1757, Gilles and Didier Robert De Vaugondy publishedThe Atlas Universel, one of the most important atlasesof the 18th century. To produce the atlas, the Vaugondys integrated older sources with more modern surveyed maps. They verified and corrected the latitudeand longitudeof many regional maps in the atlas with astronomical observations. The older material was revised with the addition of many new place names. In 1760, Didier Robert de Vaugondy was appointed geographer to Louis XV.Gilles and Didier Robert De Vaugondy produced their maps and terrestrial globes working together as father and son. Globes of a variety of sizes were made by gluing copperplate-printed gores on a plaster-finished papier-mache core, a complicated and expensive manufacturing process, employing several specialists. In some cases it is uncertain whether Gilles or Didier made a given map. Gilles often signed maps as M.Robert, while Didier commonly signed his maps as Robert de Vaugondy, or added fils or filio after his name.The Robert de Vaugondys were descended from the Nicolas Sansonfamily through Sansons grandson, Pierre Moulard-Sanson. From him, they inherited much of Sansons cartographic material, which they combined with maps and plates acquired after Hubert Jaillots death in 1712 to form the basis theAtlas Universel. Sources from the Depot de la Marine, the official French repository for maritime-related information, were used for their maps of Canada and South America. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LM-20-5119478

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