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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 2

Maps
World Maps
1766 Mappe-Monde Dressée pour l’Etude de la Géographie, rélativement aux Auteurs les plus Modernes..., by Desnos; 20 x 15¼ inches, old colour.

On stout laid paper, this copper engraved double hemisphere world map is supported by two Atlas (or Hercules) figures who are also holding a dedication banner. Unusual cartographic aspects are oddly shaped Alaskan and Australian coasts, based on the incomplete information available at the time, and a large body of water in northwestern North America called “Mer de l’Ouest” (Sea of the West).

Usual central fold, some light age marks along the fold and at the very edges of this sheet. Photo

Desnos credits the revisions of the map to Louis Brion de la Tour, who also collaborated with him on other maps. Little is known about Brion de la Tour except that he held the post of Ingenieur-Geographe du Roi and published a wide range of statistical works and many atlases

Estimate
SG$1,200 to SG$1,500