CIRCA 1776

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CLOUET, JEAN BAPTISTE LOUIS, A LARGE WALL MAP 'L'ASIE'
CIRCA 1776
CARTE D'ASIE divisée EN SES PRINCIPAUX ETATS... Par Abbé Clouet...A Paris chez Mondhare...1776, surrounded by cartouches with historical and religious scenes, text in French and Spanish; framed and glazed, unexamined out of frame
98 x 123 cm. (plate)

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Lot Essay

Abbé Clouet was a prominent member of the Académie Royale des Sciences de Rouen. He started publishing maps in collaboration with Mondhare in Paris in the 1760's initially with geographical atlasses such as the Géographe moderne. From 1776 to the mid-1790s, much of their output was devoted to large wallmaps of the world and continents which were published as sets, and issued in 1776, 1782, 1785 and 1788. A world wallmap appeared in 1785.

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