Europe
Title: „L‘Europe divisée en ses Etats, Empires, Royaumes et Républiques par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy, Géographe ordinaire du Roy..“
One of four large wall maps depicting the Continents Europe, Africa, America and Asia. Here Europe, devided in States, Empires, Kingdoms and Republics with a decorative title cartouche, which was designed by the engraver J. Arrivet.
Size c.: 98 x 112 cm (with a light green silk bordering)
Large copper engraving printed from four plates, originally published by Gilles & Didier Robert de Vaugondy Paris 1767. Here the republished edition by Charles François Delamarche (1740-1817), Paris 1792.
Beautiful print and colours, original mounting, some professional restorations, slight toning due to the age, altogether in good to very good condition.
Cp.: Mary Sponberg Pedley: Bel et Utile. The work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers. 1992, Europa S. 140/34
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