“Carte d’Amerique, Dressee pour L’Instruction…”

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Description

This edition of the Delisle map of the Americas, first published in 1722, was extensively updated through numerous revisions. It includes the information from Cook’s discoveries in the Northwest and Alaska in an inset “Supplement a la Partie Nord Ouest de l’Amerique d’apres les Decouvertes du Capitaine Cook.” The newly independent United States extends to the Mississippi River in the west and to Florida in the south. In this edition the Privilege is changed from “du Roi” to “l’Auteur Rue des Noyers Garantie Nationale An. 9.” After the French Revolution the Royal arms were erased from the cartouche and replaced by ribbons, the king’s name was removed from the title, and the date (An 9) is the French Republican calendar for 1800.

Two small centerfold holes repaired.

Year1800

Item#1726

ConditionVG+

Size 19" x 24"

RegionAmerica's

Bio

Renowned for accurate, scientific precision in their cartography, French cartographers of the eighteenth century marked a change from their more artistically oriented predecessors. This was likely due to wider availability of more accurate data. JeanClaude Dezauche (1770-1824) and Phillipe Buache (1700-1773) were the successors to the influential Guillaume De L’Isle, and continued this scientific approach.

Dezauche acquired the work of De L’Isle and Phillipe Buache in 1780, having bought it from Jean Nicolas Buache de la Neuville, Phillipe’s nephew. Dezauche made his own alterations and improvements to the works based upon new information, and republished them in accordingly. His work is often mistaken for De L’Isle’s as a result.

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