Robert de Vaugondy

LP 0629

California, Baja California peninsula, Gulf of California

"Carte de la Californie suivant
I. la Carte manuscrite de l'Amerique de Mathieu Neron Pecci olen dresses a Florence en 1604
II. Sanson 1656
III. de l'Isle Amerique Sept. 1700
IV. le Pere Kino Jesuite en 1705
V. la Societe des Jesuites en 1767"

Copper engraving by Didier Robert de Vaugondy, Paris 1770, 29,5 x 49 cm.

Very good impression and condition.

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5 detail maps of California and the Baja California peninsula differently seen by cartographers of the 17th and 18th century, starting with Mathieu Neron Pecci ('Wall map America' 1604), followed by Nicolas Sanson (California depicted as an island, 1656) and Jesuits of the 18th century (California seen as a peninsula). Compiled by Robert de Vaugondy for the supplements (Suppléments, 'Suppl. 5. Carte') of the 'Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers' by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert (from 1770 edited by Jean-Baptiste Robinet and published by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke).

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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