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NOLIN, Jean Baptiste II (1686-1762). L'Amerique dressée sur les relations les plus recentes rectifiées sur les derniers observations. Paris: chez Crepy, Rue St Jacques, 1775.
Hand-coloured engraved wallmap of the Americas on four sheets, joined, overall 1250 x 1450 mm, the title decorated with an elaborate cartouche incorporating four figured vignettes, scale bar at lower left decorated with a scene from the New World, also showing the tracks of the great American and Pacific voyages of Columbus, Verrazzano, Magellan and Quiros, seperate coloured borders with 30 inset scenes recording the discovery of the various parts of the Americas, each with engraved text below. (Some light surface rubbing, traces of old creasing, minor restoration to margins). Mounted on linen, new wooden rollers.
A fine decorative French wallmap of the Americas dedicated to Louis XVI, with attractive borders that tell the story of the discovery of the continent. The various tracks of voyages marked on the map are principally Spanish, the French ships are shown ruling the waves. The cartouche for the scale bar shows armed Europeans disrupting a party of cannibals roasting a human head on a spit. Geographically the map is cautious, California has few details, the Great lakes are slightly enlarged, the West undiscovered. First issued in 1740 by J.B. Nolin II, this re-issue is almost certainly by Jean Baptiste Crepy (fl 1753-1796) who worked in the same street as Nolin in Paris and acquired the copperplates after his death. This Nolin America map is not noted by Tooley,Dictionary of Mapmakers vol I p.313-4 but Crepy is shown as producing other maps of America in 1772 and 1774. The issue date of 1775, suggests that it was printed to meet the renewed French interest in the Americas at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
Hand-coloured engraved wallmap of the Americas on four sheets, joined, overall 1250 x 1450 mm, the title decorated with an elaborate cartouche incorporating four figured vignettes, scale bar at lower left decorated with a scene from the New World, also showing the tracks of the great American and Pacific voyages of Columbus, Verrazzano, Magellan and Quiros, seperate coloured borders with 30 inset scenes recording the discovery of the various parts of the Americas, each with engraved text below. (Some light surface rubbing, traces of old creasing, minor restoration to margins). Mounted on linen, new wooden rollers.
A fine decorative French wallmap of the Americas dedicated to Louis XVI, with attractive borders that tell the story of the discovery of the continent. The various tracks of voyages marked on the map are principally Spanish, the French ships are shown ruling the waves. The cartouche for the scale bar shows armed Europeans disrupting a party of cannibals roasting a human head on a spit. Geographically the map is cautious, California has few details, the Great lakes are slightly enlarged, the West undiscovered. First issued in 1740 by J.B. Nolin II, this re-issue is almost certainly by Jean Baptiste Crepy (fl 1753-1796) who worked in the same street as Nolin in Paris and acquired the copperplates after his death. This Nolin America map is not noted by Tooley,Dictionary of Mapmakers vol I p.313-4 but Crepy is shown as producing other maps of America in 1772 and 1774. The issue date of 1775, suggests that it was printed to meet the renewed French interest in the Americas at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
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