Carte de L'Isle de Saint Domingue. Dressée en 1722 pour l'usage du Roy Sur les memoires de Mr. Frezier Ingenieur de S. M.... Insulæ S. Dominicæ Tabula Accuratissima

by Guillaume De L'Isle

$500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

An important early map of the island of Hispaniola, by the celebrated French cartographer, Guillaume de L'Isle. Guillaume de l'Isle 1675-1726 was the son of a cartographer and a pupil of Jean Dominique Cassini, who, among other important contributions, aligned the study of astronomy to the study of geography. Under Cassini's direction, observations were made from locations all over the world that enabled longitudinal calculations to be made with much greater accuracy. De

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