Eighteenth century map of Europe

DELISLE, Guillaume.

Carte d'Europe Dressée pour l'Usage du Roy sur les Itineraries anciens en modernes et sur les Routiers de mer assujetis aux observations astronomiques.
Paris: Philippe Buache, 1745. Coloured. 490 x 610mm.

A large and detailed map of Europe, first published in 1724, with the title in a fine rococo cartouche.
Although Europe was well mapped by this time, 'Brazil Rock' is still marked, just to the west of the French Prime Meridian: this is a vestige of the mythical 'Hy Brazil', an island once believed to rise from the Atlantic once every seven years.

BROOKE-HITCHING: The Phantom Atlas, p.130-3.
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