Print Description
Interesting map of the Western Mediterranean, from Italy, Spain and the Balearic Islands to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, based upon an earlier map by Johann Baptiste Liebaux. The map provides a highly detailed treatment of the roads and trading routes in North Africa. Decorative cartouche.
Made by an anonymous engraver after Guillaume de L’Isle.
Medium: engraving / etching with outline hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 75 x 52.5 cm (29.53 x 20.67 inch). Image size: 64 x 48.5 cm. (25.2 x 19.09 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Paper slightly browned and light staining. Slightly damp-stained lower part near middle fold. Two worm holes bottom margin, not affecting image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
MEDITERRANEAN-MOROCCO-LIBYA-ITALY-SPAIN | DP-A1-002-05
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Original antique map by Guillaume de L’Isle, published in France ca. 1700. .
Biography artist: The de L’Isle family was one of the most influential Geographers of the early 18th century in France. Claude de L’Isle, born 1644, had four sons, of which Guillaume was the most notable. Guillaume was born 1675 and became member of the ‘Academie Royale des Sciences’ with the age of twenty-seven, and was honoured later with the title ‘Premier Geographe du Roi’. His largest project, the ‘Atlas de Geographie’, was published until 1774 in Paris and Amsterdam (Covens and Mortier). He died in 1726.
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