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Important Cartography from the Niewodniczanski Collection
BEAURAIN, Jean de (1696-1771, compiler)
Atlas contenant la carte de la Mapmonde, de l'Europe, de celles des Isles Britaniques des Couronnes du Nord Moscovie, Pologne, Allemagne, et des Pays-Bas. Paris: chez le sieur Beaurain, 1743.
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BEAURAIN, Jean de (1696-1771, compiler)
Atlas contenant la carte de la Mapmonde, de l'Europe, de celles des Isles Britaniques des Couronnes du Nord Moscovie, Pologne, Allemagne, et des Pays-Bas. Paris: chez le sieur Beaurain, 1743.
A handsome 3-volume composite atlas of 260 maps and plans by De L’Isle, Jaillot, de Fer, Homann, Le Rouge, de Beaurain, Nolin, Sanson, Hondius, and Homann, most published in the first quarter of the eighteenth-century, and some later, up to 1742.
The maps are arranged as follows:
Volume 1: World map by De L’Isle (1720), maps of Europe, the British Isles, Ireland, Scandinavia, Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg etc., and France (including many regional maps and town plans), published by De L’Isle, Jaillot, de Fer, Homann, Le Rouge and de Beaurain.
Volume 2: a continuation of regional maps and town plans of France, followed by maps of Spain, Italy, and some Mediterranean islands (Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and Malta), published by De L’Isle, Jaillot, Nolin, and French town plans by de Beaurain.
Volume 3: Asia, Africa, America, classical and biblical maps, many by De L’Isle, and a few by Jaillot, Sanson and Hondius, and some sea charts produced for the Depot de la Marine dated 1742.
3 volumes, large folio (565 x 425mm). 3 engraved decorative titles each with a calligraphic manuscript ink title, 260 (90+99+71) engraved mapsheets, some with hand-colouring, including a world map, continents, regional maps of France, and European town plans, all but 17 double-page, some folding, text and some maps with margins extended to size, volume 1 with double-page engraved ‘Alphabet et definition des termes […] geographie, par P. du-Val’ (1677), ‘Table generale de geographie’, and double-page letterpress ‘Explication des deux cartes, que l’Academie de Petersbourg a fait graver’ with text in Latin, French, Dutch and German, volume 3 with 4 double-page letterpress ‘Tables chronologiques et historiques’, each volume with a manuscript ink index of maps bound at the end (map of the Holy Land listed in index (no. 66) of volume 3 but not present; first map in volumes 1 and 2 (‘Carte de Europe’ and ‘Carte de France’) with repaired tears along centre fold, creased and small loss from lower margin, some mapsheets browned or slightly creased). Contemporary mottled calf, spines in compartments with raised bands richly gilt, red morocco lettering pieces, arms of Alexandre de la Rochefoucauld stamped in gilt to each cover [see provenance]. (joints starting, some wear to extremities). Provenance: Alexandre de la Rochefoucauld, 5th duc de la Rochefoucauld, 2nd duc de la Roche-Guyon (1690–1762; gilt arms to covers [Olivier 710.1], later small faint purple ink stamp of the Château de La Roche-Guyon to each title).
Atlas contenant la carte de la Mapmonde, de l'Europe, de celles des Isles Britaniques des Couronnes du Nord Moscovie, Pologne, Allemagne, et des Pays-Bas. Paris: chez le sieur Beaurain, 1743.
A handsome 3-volume composite atlas of 260 maps and plans by De L’Isle, Jaillot, de Fer, Homann, Le Rouge, de Beaurain, Nolin, Sanson, Hondius, and Homann, most published in the first quarter of the eighteenth-century, and some later, up to 1742.
The maps are arranged as follows:
Volume 1: World map by De L’Isle (1720), maps of Europe, the British Isles, Ireland, Scandinavia, Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg etc., and France (including many regional maps and town plans), published by De L’Isle, Jaillot, de Fer, Homann, Le Rouge and de Beaurain.
Volume 2: a continuation of regional maps and town plans of France, followed by maps of Spain, Italy, and some Mediterranean islands (Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and Malta), published by De L’Isle, Jaillot, Nolin, and French town plans by de Beaurain.
Volume 3: Asia, Africa, America, classical and biblical maps, many by De L’Isle, and a few by Jaillot, Sanson and Hondius, and some sea charts produced for the Depot de la Marine dated 1742.
3 volumes, large folio (565 x 425mm). 3 engraved decorative titles each with a calligraphic manuscript ink title, 260 (90+99+71) engraved mapsheets, some with hand-colouring, including a world map, continents, regional maps of France, and European town plans, all but 17 double-page, some folding, text and some maps with margins extended to size, volume 1 with double-page engraved ‘Alphabet et definition des termes […] geographie, par P. du-Val’ (1677), ‘Table generale de geographie’, and double-page letterpress ‘Explication des deux cartes, que l’Academie de Petersbourg a fait graver’ with text in Latin, French, Dutch and German, volume 3 with 4 double-page letterpress ‘Tables chronologiques et historiques’, each volume with a manuscript ink index of maps bound at the end (map of the Holy Land listed in index (no. 66) of volume 3 but not present; first map in volumes 1 and 2 (‘Carte de Europe’ and ‘Carte de France’) with repaired tears along centre fold, creased and small loss from lower margin, some mapsheets browned or slightly creased). Contemporary mottled calf, spines in compartments with raised bands richly gilt, red morocco lettering pieces, arms of Alexandre de la Rochefoucauld stamped in gilt to each cover [see provenance]. (joints starting, some wear to extremities). Provenance: Alexandre de la Rochefoucauld, 5th duc de la Rochefoucauld, 2nd duc de la Roche-Guyon (1690–1762; gilt arms to covers [Olivier 710.1], later small faint purple ink stamp of the Château de La Roche-Guyon to each title).
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