Description

A great antique Afrique map, divided into main empires and kingdoms, by famous French cartographer Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723-1786), with beautiful and intricate cartouches and hand colouring.  Published in the late 1700’s/early 1800’s in Paris.

Size: approximately 76,5 cm x 56,5 cm), copper print map on paper with rear canvas, in good condition despite signs of age

The map is from the “Nouvel Atlas Portatif”, first published in 1762 by Didier Robert de Vaugondy, who was appointed geographer of King Louis XV in 1760 and who intended the atlas to be used to educate young students in the basic elements of geography. The atlas was later published by Charles François Delamarche, a Parisian geographer and publisher who bought the copper plates of Robert de Vaugondy and reissued the atlas.