An old hand-coloured world map by famous French cartographer Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723-1786), with beautiful and intricate cartouches and hand colouring. Published ca. 1812 in Paris.
Size: approximately 18.25 inches x 12 inches (46.36 cm x 30.48 cm). Previously folded.
The full map is shown in the first photo. Originally folded when bound into the atlas.
The map is from the Nouvel Atlas Portatif, first published in 1762 by Didier Robert de Vaugondy, who was appointed geographer of King Louis XV in 1760 and who intended the atlas to be used to educate young students in the basic elements of geography. The atlas, including the 1804 edition from which this map was taken, was later published by Charles François Delamarche, a Parisian geographer and publisher who bought the copper plates of Robert de Vaugondy and reissued the atlas.
