Robert de Vaugondy

LP 0829

Northwestern coast of North America

"Amerique Septentrionale, dressée, sur les Relations lea plus modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs et divisée suivant les differentes possessions des Européens. Par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy, fils de Sr. Robert Géographe orin' du Roy. Avec Privilege. 1750."

Map of Northern and Central America, with a decorative title cartouche at upper left.

Coloured copper engraving by Robert de Vaugondy, Paris 1750, 49,5 x 62 cm.

€ 1.400,-

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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