Gilles Robert de Vaugondy

LP 0329

Eastern coast of the United States

"Partie de l'Amerique Septentrionale, qui comprend le Cours de l'Ohio ... la Caronline. Avec Privilege 1755."

Map of the eastern coast of the United States from the area of Maine down to North Carolina, with an inset map with the coast down to Florida, decorative title cartouche at lower right.­

Copper engraving, original outline colours, by Gilles Robert de Vaugondy and M.C. Haussard, from 'Atlas Universel', Paris 1757, 48 x 62 cm.

Perfect impression and condition.

€ 1.100,-

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1686 – 1763)
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1686 - 1763). Royal geographer and publisher in Paris. Nephew of Pierre Moullart-Sanson (Sanson), whose firm he took over 1730. He enlarged the stock of his company buying the estate of Jaillot. Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723 - 1786). Royal geographer and publisher of atlases in Paris. Worked together with his father Gilles Robert de Vaugondy. Their atlases were reissued by Charles Francois Delamarche (1740 - 1817) from 1792 on.

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