Amerique Septentrionale

by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville

$1,200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

One of the best French Maps of North America prior to the French & Indian War. To illustrate the cartography of the second half of the eighteenth century, a d'Anville map is essential. He dominated not only French but all contemporary geographers. He was one of the foremost to leave blank spaces in his maps where knowledge was insufficient Tooley . Jean Baptiste Bouguignon d'Anville was appointed Royal Geographer to Louis XV at the age of twenty. A meticulous

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