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A large 18th-century map of the Persian region (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan) with Armenia Georgia, and the Arabian desert by G Delisle. An updated edition by Buache/Dezauche.
The map is copperplate engraved with hand coloring, and shows a large decorative title cartouche with mileage scale. The map can be regarded as the most detailed map of Persia of its time.
Guillaume De L'Isle (1675-1726) is probably the greatest figure in French cartography. Having learned geography from his father Claude, and by the age of eight or nine, he could draw maps to demonstrate ancient history. He studied mathematics and astronomy under Cassini, from whom he received a superb grounding in scientific cartography — the hallmark of his work. His first atlas was published in ca 1700. In 1702, he was elected a member of the Academie Royale des Sciences and in 1718 he became premier Geographe du Roi.
De L'Isle's work was important as marking a transition from the maps of the Dutch school, which were highly decorative and artistically orientated, to a more scientific approach. He reduced the importance given to the decorative elements in maps, and emphasized the scientific base on which they were constructed.
His maps of the newly explored parts of the world reflect the most up-to-date information available and did not contain fanciful detail in the absence of solid information. It can be fairly said that he was truly the father of the modern school of cartography at the commercial level.
De L’Isle also played a prominent part in the recalculation of latitude and longitude, based on the most recent celestial observations. His major contribution was in collating and incorporating this latitudinal and longitudinal information in his maps, setting a new standard of accuracy, quickly followed by many of his contemporaries.
De L’Isle’s work was widely copied by other mapmakers of the period, including Chatelain, Covens & Mortier, and Albrizzi.
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Carte de Perse dressée pour l'usage du Roy.
A large 18th-century map of the Persian region (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan) with Armenia Georgia, and the Arabian desert by G Delisle. An updated edition by Buache/Dezauche....
Starting Bid: $128
BidAsk spread: $160 - $230
Maker: DE L'ISLE, G.Date: Paris, 1785
