Wall-maps, world and continents--Clouet, Jean Baptiste Louis, abbé.

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25,000 - 30,000 GBP

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Description

Set of 5 wall-maps. Paris: Louis Mondhare, 1788-1793, 5 large engraved wall-maps each on 4 sheets, each approx. 960 x 1230mm., contemporary hand colour, joined and backed on modern linen, later rollers, some restoration, very slight loss (see below)

Catalogue Note

The set comprises:

Carte generale de la terre ou mappe monde avec les quatres principaux systemes [repeated in Spanish]. Paris: Mondhare, 1788, 20 border vignettes showing Biblical scenes with descriptive text in French and Spanish, smaller hemispheres including an armillary sphere, astronomical diagrams and an allegory of Atlas, light overall browning, some cracking of green

Carte d'Amerique divisee en ses principaux pays. Paris: Mondhare, 1793, 30 border vignettes depicting events in the history of the French, Spanish and English in the New World

Carte d'Afrique divisee en ses principaux Etats... Paris: Mondhare, 1788

Carte d'Europe divisee en ses empires et royaumes. Paris: Mondhare, 1788

Carte d'Asie divisee en ses principaux etats. Paris: Mondhare, 1788