Lot 43
  • 43

Delisle, Guillaume

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • [Atlas]. Paris: G. de Lisle, 1700-1714
  • paper
Folio (540 x 390mm.), 64 mostly double-page engraved maps, maps numbered 1 to 64 in manuscript, contemporary outline colour, a few cities coloured later, contemporary mottled calf over boards, spine gilt in compartments, leather label on spine "Cartes de Delisle", world map repaired at fold, several maps repaired or strengthened, some occasional staining or creasing, upper cover becoming detached, worn

Literature

Phillips, Atlases 636; Shirley, British Library T.DEL–1b (similar collection); Burden, The Mapping of North America II, 761, state 6

Condition

World map repaired at fold, several maps repaired or strengthened, some occasional staining or creasing, upper cover becoming detached, worn
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Catalogue Note

An interesting collection of Delisle’s maps, assembled in Paris and sold without a title-page. The contents include modern and historical maps. Most maps bear his name and all have the address "Quai de l’Horloge", 12 with the addition of "Aigle d’Or" and one "à cours de Palais".

Several maps have evidence of the erasure of Louis Renard’s imprint, including the map of North America (“what better way to usher in eighteenth century cartographically than with this significant and influential map” (Burden)). Delisle had approached Renard in 1706 to distribute his maps in Amsterdam, but the venture was unsuccessful.