Guillaume Delisle, Philippe Buache

French Double-Hemisphere World Map

Jean André Dezauche

1800

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Description

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.

  • Guillaume Delisle (French).
  • Philippe Buache (French).
  • 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. 
  • Unframed.


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.

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Minor signs of age and wear.

Dimensions

Height: 18.5 inches / 47 cm
Width: 26.18 inches / 66.5 cm

Language

French

Subject

Travel and Exploration, Maps and Atlases, World, History, French Literature and History, Maps

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