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Portable, universal and military atlas, composed from the best maps, both engraved and handwritten, of the most famous geographers and engineers. By M. Robert * Ordinary geographer to the King. Paris, At the author, Durand and Pissot fils., 1748.
This atlas is in good condition, in its own juice. It is complete (orders of the cards presented at the beginning of the book).
A note: some accidents at the cover and binding, some stains and yellowing on the paper, some pages are badly folded or a little torn, take a good look at the photos.
dit Robert de Vaugondy, born in 1688 and died in 1766, is a French geographer and cartographer. Coming from a family of cartographers, descendant of the famous Nicolas Sanson and ordinary geographer of the king, Gilles Robert de Vaugondy is known by his maps of the French provinces. He published an Essay on the History of Geography (1755) from which he excluded “too systematic” physical geography. After a Small Atlas, he draws up a universal Atlas, a portable Atlas. His engraving is beautiful, but he neglects to trace the degrees of longitude and latitude. His Atlas of the Revolutions of the Globe remains unpublished. His warnings and prefaces, his book reviews reveal a Cartesian spirit and solid knowledge. Very early on, he associated with his work his son Didier who published, from 1742, the methodical tables of Nicolas Sanson, two Globes, one terrestrial, the other celestial (1752). We owe him a map of Poland, a trial map of the Arctic Polar Sea. The father and the son collaborated with the Encyclopedia for the articles “Geography” (1757), “Fuseau”, “Globe”. (Cf Universalis)
