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BLONDEL, Jacques-François (1705-1774). [Composite Atlas]. Paris: maps dated 1695-1769.

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 68

BLONDEL, Jacques-François (1705-1774). [Composite Atlas]. Paris: maps dated 1695-1769.

Schätzpreis
40.000 £ - 60.000 £
ca. 50.867 $ - 76.301 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

BLONDEL, Jacques-François (1705-1774). [Composite Atlas]. Paris: maps dated 1695-1769. A unique, magnificent geographic artefact of the Enlightenment: the impressive hand-coloured atlas factice crafted by the great architect and mathematician Jacques-François Blondel author of the ‘Architecture’ entry in the Encyclopédie , and hailed in Diderot and d’Alembert’s preliminary discourse as the generous and talented polymath whom no-one could have surpassed as a contributor to the summa of contemporary knowledge. The title-page, in manuscript surrounded by an engraved border and a vignette rich with allusions to engineering disciplines, describes this endeavour as the carefully deliberate selection of the most detailed and precise maps available at the time: the first volume covering Europe with maps by Delisle, Jaillot, Robert among others, all ‘enluminée proprement et à la manière d’Hollande’; the second exploring the coasts of Europe, Asia, Africa and America through maps by Bellin, based ‘on the most recent discoveries’, complemented by maps of the ancient world – all to achieve a work which, ‘without multiplying its objects, contains all that is necessary to acquire in a short time a knowledge of all the parts of the earth and the sea’. Around 140 important maps fruit of the best of French 18th-century cartography make up this atlas, hand-picked amongst the best contemporary work to include celestial planispheres and Arctic and Antarctic hemispheres, as well as continental and more close-up national and regional maps: a veritable geographic Encyclopédie , therefore, compiled with the same esprit , method, motives and ambition as the eponymous publication to which Blondel was so committedly contributing. 2 volumes, folio (558 x 420mm). Vol.1: Manuscript title within engraved border, manuscript table of contents listing 93 maps, 93 engraved double-page hand-coloured maps, some folding; vol.2: engraved title of Bellin’s L'Hydrographie Francoise , manuscript table of contents listing 47 maps, 46 engraved double-page hand-coloured maps, some folding (bound without the plate numbered as 3 in the manuscript index, occasional spotting, some thumbing and soiling along a few margins); all maps with number and abbreviated title in manuscript on verso. Contemporary cat's paw calf, sides triple-filleted in gilt with gilt floral corner-pieces (rebacked, extremities a little rubbed, a few abrasions to sides touching the gilding).

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 68
Auktion:
Datum:
05.06.2019
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

BLONDEL, Jacques-François (1705-1774). [Composite Atlas]. Paris: maps dated 1695-1769. A unique, magnificent geographic artefact of the Enlightenment: the impressive hand-coloured atlas factice crafted by the great architect and mathematician Jacques-François Blondel author of the ‘Architecture’ entry in the Encyclopédie , and hailed in Diderot and d’Alembert’s preliminary discourse as the generous and talented polymath whom no-one could have surpassed as a contributor to the summa of contemporary knowledge. The title-page, in manuscript surrounded by an engraved border and a vignette rich with allusions to engineering disciplines, describes this endeavour as the carefully deliberate selection of the most detailed and precise maps available at the time: the first volume covering Europe with maps by Delisle, Jaillot, Robert among others, all ‘enluminée proprement et à la manière d’Hollande’; the second exploring the coasts of Europe, Asia, Africa and America through maps by Bellin, based ‘on the most recent discoveries’, complemented by maps of the ancient world – all to achieve a work which, ‘without multiplying its objects, contains all that is necessary to acquire in a short time a knowledge of all the parts of the earth and the sea’. Around 140 important maps fruit of the best of French 18th-century cartography make up this atlas, hand-picked amongst the best contemporary work to include celestial planispheres and Arctic and Antarctic hemispheres, as well as continental and more close-up national and regional maps: a veritable geographic Encyclopédie , therefore, compiled with the same esprit , method, motives and ambition as the eponymous publication to which Blondel was so committedly contributing. 2 volumes, folio (558 x 420mm). Vol.1: Manuscript title within engraved border, manuscript table of contents listing 93 maps, 93 engraved double-page hand-coloured maps, some folding; vol.2: engraved title of Bellin’s L'Hydrographie Francoise , manuscript table of contents listing 47 maps, 46 engraved double-page hand-coloured maps, some folding (bound without the plate numbered as 3 in the manuscript index, occasional spotting, some thumbing and soiling along a few margins); all maps with number and abbreviated title in manuscript on verso. Contemporary cat's paw calf, sides triple-filleted in gilt with gilt floral corner-pieces (rebacked, extremities a little rubbed, a few abrasions to sides touching the gilding).

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 68
Auktion:
Datum:
05.06.2019
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London
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