D'Anville Atlas General
D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782).
[Atlas General].
Paris, ca. 1803.
Comparable: Sotheby’s, 2005 - GBP 14,400.
Folio (22 x 16 6/8 inches). 36 FINE engraved maps (including a duplicate of the map of France), 34 by Anville, one by Brion and Maire, and one by Paultre, most double-page, but including some folding and single-page; 25 maps with contemporary hand-colour in outline, the others without. Contemporary French red morocco backed scarlet paper boards, gilt (a bit rubbed). Provenance: With the modern bookplate of Mark Babinski on the front paste-down. AN ATTRACTIVE COMPOSITE ATLAS. Including fine maps relating to America: "Hemisphere Occidental ou du Nouveau Monde" (1786); "Amerique Septentrionale" (1746), in two maps; "AMerique Meridionale" (1748), in three maps; "Carte de la Louisiane" (1752); "Canada Louisiane et Terres Angloises" (1775), in three maps; and "Le Fleuve Saint-Laurent". Following the death of Guillaume Delisle, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville continued the line of progressive French cartographers which had begun with Nicolas Sanson in the previous century. He was a scrupulous editor of maps and his work spanned most of the eighteenth century. He was concerned equally with the classical and modern worlds and he was continually updating the geographical content of his maps. cf. Shirley, British Library T.ANV-2a (also without title-pages).
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D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782).
[Atlas General].
Paris, ca. 1803.
Comparable: Sotheby’s, 2005 - GBP 14,400.
Folio (22 x 16 6/8 inches). 36 FINE engraved maps (including a duplicate of the map of France), 34 by Anville, one by Brion and Maire, and one by Paultre, most double-page, but including some folding and single-page; 25 maps with contemporary hand-colour in outline, the others without. Contemporary French red morocco backed scarlet paper boards, gilt (a bit rubbed). Provenance: With the modern bookplate of Mark Babinski on the front paste-down. AN ATTRACTIVE COMPOSITE ATLAS. Including fine maps relating to America: "Hemisphere Occidental ou du Nouveau Monde" (1786); "Amerique Septentrionale" (1746), in two maps; "AMerique Meridionale" (1748), in three maps; "Carte de la Louisiane" (1752); "Canada Louisiane et Terres Angloises" (1775), in three maps; and "Le Fleuve Saint-Laurent". Following the death of Guillaume Delisle, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville continued the line of progressive French cartographers which had begun with Nicolas Sanson in the previous century. He was a scrupulous editor of maps and his work spanned most of the eighteenth century. He was concerned equally with the classical and modern worlds and he was continually updating the geographical content of his maps. cf. Shirley, British Library T.ANV-2a (also without title-pages).
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