Paris: Delamarque, C.F. 1797.

(Amerique ou Indes Occidentales avec les Nouvelles Decouvertes du Capt. Cook depuis le Detroit de behrings ou du Nord dans l`Ocean pacifique du Nord et Sud) Plate 11 in the Atlas d`Etude pour l`instruction de la Jeunesse, or Educational Atlas for the Instruction of the Young. After publishing their famous Atlas Universel in 1757, Giles Robert de Vaugondy and his son Didier Robert de Vaugondy became some of the most famous mapmakers in France. They published several study Atlases, the 1797 being the earliest. This map is an updated state of Vaugondy's map of the New World, credited to Vaugondy's successor, Delamarche. Both North and South America are shown in their entirety, and divided into their constituent regions. Geographically, the map has information from the voyages of Captain Cook up the west coast of America, although the extreme northwest is still mapped partially on conjecture. One improvement over previous states of this map is the depiction of Puget Sound on the west coast of North America, and the coast of modern day British Columbia. To the right of the map itself is a breakdown of the different states and regions in North America, the Caribbean and South America. Overall an excellent map of the New World at the end of the eighteenth century. Text in French. The map measures 26 1/4" x 22" to neat lines, 30 1/4" x 22" to margins and has several creases running down near the center seam, and mild scattered soiling. Overall in very good condition.

ISBN: none.

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