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1777 DE VAUGONDY / KREVELT. - Nouveau Systeme Geographique par lequel on concilie les anciennes connoissances sur les Pays Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique avec les nouvelles decouvertes des Russes au Nord de la Mer du Sud.
Nouveau Systeme Geographique par lequel on concilie les anciennes connoissances sur les Pays Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique avec les nouvelles decouvertes des Russes au Nord de la Mer du Sud.
| Maker: | DE VAUGONDY / KREVELT. | |
| Date: | Amsterdam, 1777 | |
| Colored: | Uncolored. | |
| Size: | 285 x 360 mm / 11.2 x 14.2 inches | |
| Condition: | In excellent condition. Folds as issued, good impression, wide margins, lightly age toned. | |
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This map represents the final major cartographic work in perhaps the most important scientific debate in the history of cartography, which occupied the collective energy of the greatest French mapmakers during the third quarter of the 18th Century.
Didier Robert de Vaugondy's map is a fascinating and highly important artifact of cartographic history, representing the historical highpoint of the French scientific inquiry into the search for the Northwest Passage and the competing cartographic theories underlying this inquiry, as well as the final map proposed by the De Vaugondy family as part of the more than two decade cartographic family feud with the De L'Isle/Buache family of mapmakers.
Beginning with Joseph Nicholas De L'Isle's return from St. Petersburg in 1747 and his publication of the Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes Au Nord de la Mer de Sud . . . 1750, the French cartographic community was gripped with an intense period of scientific inquiry into the proper way to depict the Northwestern regions of North America and the contiguous polar regions and Northeast coast of Asia.
Reference: Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps .
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