A fine double-hemisphere world map from 1800

DELISLE, Guillaume, & BUACHE, Philippe.

Mappemonde a l'usage de l'instr.on Par Guillaume Delisle et Philippe Buache Premiers Geographes et de l'Académie des Sciences. Revue et Augmentée des N.les Découvertes par Dezauche en 1800.
Paris: Jean André Dezauche, 1800. Coloured. 470 x 665mm.

Guillaume Delisle's world map revised and published by Dezauche, showing the discoveries of Cook's three voyages, but with Tasmania still joined to mainland Australia.
Issued in Year 9 of the French Revolution, the references to Delisle and Buache as Geographers to the King have been removed. The head in the clouds above the map represents the Deistic religion that was to replace the Catholic Church in France.


Stock ID : 23949