DE LAMARCHE

MAPPE-MONDE

Charles Franois DE LAMARCHE

1795

21,5 x 27 cm.

Engraving on black and white laid paper with contemporary border coloring. Codpiece in the center with editorial folds. Excellent inking and good condition, slight traces of foxing and browning, signs of wear better identified in the photo. Intact sheet with original margins visible signs of binding.

Charles François Delamarche (1740 – 1817) was a French geographer and cartographer. He was one of the most important French geographers and cartographers of the second half of the eighteenth century. Successor of Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667), Robert de Vaugondy (1686-1766) and Rigobert Bonne (1727-1794), he reprinted their atlases. He devoted himself to teaching geography. Among his works, in addition to maps and globes, it is worth mentioning a treatise on the use of the sphere, celestial globes and terrestrial globes (Traité de la sphère et de l’usage des globes, 1790), in which he illustrates, in addition to the Ptolemaic system, also the Copernican one, also enumerating all the ancient and modern constellations.