Antique map-WORLD MAP-AMERICA-EUROPE-GREENLAND-Depot de la Marine-1852

Engraving on laid paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 99.4 x 66.6 cm. The image size is ca. 91.7 x 62.7 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 39.1 x 26.2 inch. The image size is ca. 36.1 x 24.7 inch.

Antique map, titled: ”Mappemonde Hydrographique dressee par Mr. C.L. Gressier […].” – A partial world map of the Northern Hemisphere, from Alaska and the Bering Strait in the left edge, to Scandinavia and Spitsbergen in the right edge. The map extends as far as Cuba and North Africa to the south. Published by the Depot de la Marine, 1852. Artists and Engravers: Made by an anonymous engraver after ‘C.L. Gressier’. Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine (1720 – present), often called the Depot de Marine, was a French hydrographic mapping organization founded in 1720. Much like the U.S. Coast Survey, the British Admiralty, and the Spanish Deposito Hydrografico, the Depot was initiated as a storehouse and distribution center of existing nautical and marine charts. Eventually the Depot initiated its on mapping activities in an attempt to improve and expand upon existing material. Some of the well known hydrograhers / cartographers in the development of Depot were Jacques Nicholas Bellin and Rigobert Bonne.

Condition: Good, given age. Original middle fold, as issued. Some paper damage in the lower margin (not affecting image). Soft creases in the margins. Offsetting where the map was folded on itself. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE MAP-WORLD MAP-AMERICA-EUROPE-GREENLAND-DEPOT DE LA MARINE

(PCO) GK-359