427 - Cartography

Cartography Robert de Vaugondy et al., Gilles Collection of 4 maps, including 2 two-part maps of antiquity. Each is a multicolored, border-colored copperplate map with detailed legends and geographical labels, (partially illustrated) title cartouches, mountain and waterline outlines, and various graphic scales. Paris, 1737, 1743, 1750, and ca. 1780. Each approx. 81 x 54 cm (sheet size). Six sheets of thick handmade paper, each folded once and printed on one side, thread-sewn along a wide center fold and reinforced with a paper strip (which has small tears and adhesive residue from a former binding). Contains: 1. Gilles Robert de Vaugondy et al., *Carte pour servir à la lecture de l'histoire ancienne des Egyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Mèdes, des Perses, des Macédoniens, des Grecs*. Engraved by Le Tellier. Paris, 1737. 2 double sheets, total approx. 133 x 104 cm (plates) and approx. 162 x 108 cm (sheets). - 2. Gilles Robert de Vaugondy et al., *Imperium Caroli Magni Occidentis Imperatoris*... Engraved by Charles François Delamarche. Paris, 1743. Approx. 64.5 x 48 cm (plate) and approx. 81 x 54 cm (sheet). - 3. Gilles Robert de Vaugondy et al., *Gallia Antiqua in Provincias et Populos divisa*. Paris, undated (1750). Approx. 62 x 49 cm (plate) and approx. 81 x 54 cm (sheet). - 4. Charles François Delamarche (after N. Sanson). Imperii romani occidentis scilicet et orientis tabula... Paris, ca. 1780. 2 double sheets, total approx. 119 x 100 cm (plates) and approx. 162 x 108 cm (sheets). - Somewhat lightly finger- and dirt-stained in the margins, with occasional minor creases and handling marks; overall, well-preserved, wide-margin maps with high-contrast printing and bold border coloring. Set of 4 gorgeously drawn and skillfully printed French maps of the ancient world, 2 of which are in two parts. Each features border coloring, detailed legends and geographical labels, (partially illustrated) title cartouches, mountain and river lines, as well as various graphic scales. Paris, 1737, 1743, 1750, and c. 1780. Each approx. 81 x 54 cm (sheet size). Six sheets of thick handmade paper, folded once and printed on one side, thread-sewn along a broad central fold reinforced with a paper strip (the latter with small tears and adhesive residue from a previous binding). - For details on each map, see the German description above. - Margins are occasionally slightly finger-stained and soiled, as well as showing minor creases; overall, these are well-preserved, wide-margined maps with high-contrast printing and bold border coloring.