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ROBERT DE VAUGONDY'S GREAT ATLAS. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, DIDIER AND GILLES. Atlas Universel par M. Robert... par M. Robert de Vaugondy, son fils... . Paris (chez les Auteurs & Boudet) 1757 (-1758).

Large folio (545 x 425 mm.). Engraved title, 108 double-page engraved maps, all hand coloured in outline and mounted on guards, including the additional 5 maps depicting the post roads in Italy, Spain, Germany, the British Isles and France. 12 maps are of the ancient world and 96 of modern geography. All maps blank on verso, apart from a number stencilled in ink. (title slightly browned and with a stain to upper part, a few maps with some spotting (Spain), Asia slightly browned, some maps with slight dampstaining or foxing, mostly margin, some scarcely affecting upper part of map, some offsetting).

Contemporary full calf binding, spine in eight compartments with gilt title label, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (partly worn, repairs to outer joints, upper outer and inner joint partly split with first endpaper loose, lower endpaper renewed). Title with dampstain to upper part, small repair to one text page.

Collation: Engraved title, (2), 40 pp. 108 engraved maps.
Shirley T.ROBV-1c (pp. 858). Nordenskiöld 245 (1757 edition with 108 maps).

Of the 108 maps, 12 are of the ancient world and 96 reflect modern geography. Many maps in this atlas are made after the latest exploration of the areas, such as the maps of the East Indies, China, Japan, Africa and Egypt, and the maps of North America, Canada, Virginia and Maryland, Colonies Angloises which therefore are expecially interesting.
The 103 listed maps are augmented by five maps of post roads which were made available to the subscribers for the additional cost of 6 ´livres´. This popular atlas was issued by subscription and 1,118 copies were applied for in all.

An important large-paper copy of this atlas comprising letterpress ´avertissement´ leaf, 40 pp. text, 1p. ´table des articles´, 5pp. subscribers, 1p. with details of costs and additional maps. The engraved title is signed Ch. Baquoy and J. Oger.
The Atlas Universel was Robert de Vaugondy´s principal atlas first published in 1753, soon after he had set up in business in Paris. Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, a father and son team, produced their atlases, globes and maps together. In 1760 Didier Robert de Vaugondy was appointed Royal Geographer to the French court.
Their atlas is a continuation of Sanson's great work, "Cartes Générales de Toutes les Parties de Monde" published in 1654 and later enhanced and enlarged by Hubert Jaillot.

Provenance: Mr. Dieudonné Jeanroy (1750-1816), Professor in Médicine at the ´Faculté de Médecine´ in Paris.
A Swedish private collection.

A list of all maps (from Nordenskiöld) can be sent at request.

Auktionsnummer:

6152

Datum:

2019-06-14