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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 1

Maps
World Maps
"1752" Mappemonde ou Description du globe terrestre by Robert de Vaugondy; 30½ x 20 inches with original outline colour.

Copper engraving on watermarked laid paper. A beautiful world map in two hemispheres from the 1757 first edition of Giles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy's famous "Atlas Universal". The map shows the voyages of Anson in 1740, l'Aigle et la Marie, 1738-9, and Galion Na. Seignora - the galleon routes to and from Acapulco - Manila, 1743. New Zealand is partially shown, and Nourvelle Hollande (Australia) contains a very strange line on its east coast aptly labeled "Cotes conjectures." North America is open an empty in the north-west. Australia is shown with partially undefined coastlines. Lavish ornamental cartouches.

Usual reinforced central fold and two other vertical folds towards edges. Printed "Mappe-Monde" on verso of each side. Good to fine. Photo

Estimate
SG$4,000 to SG$5,000