Map number 103 of the Vaugondy's large Atlas titled in french "Partie de l'Amérique Septent?
qui comprend la Nouvelle France ou le Canada,
par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy Géog? ordinaire du Roy. Avec Privilège
An inset titled "Supplément pour les Lacs du Canada"
Size : in folio :
18.9 x 23.8 inches. / 48.0 x 60.5 cm with inset 37 x 22 cm
Condition : The paper is still white. Foulings. Fewer ink foulings. The ink acidity has crossed the paper. A small tear in the top of the higher margin, and another tear in the left side. Colours are in good condition 8/10
Engraved map. Hand colored borders. Relief shown pictorially. Ornemental cartouche.
Antique map map of French Canada with an inset on the lower left of the still not completely defined Great Lakes (Huron, Supérieur, Michigan, Erie, Ontario, Bois) with the Ohio, Miamis, Illinois, Mississipi Rivers.
The decorative title cartouche features a woodland scene with a canoe and a fierce-looking beaver and in the distance an Indian village.
The map depictes the St Laurent Gulf, the strait of Belle-isle, Terre Neuve with its bayes (Désepoir, Blanche, Plaisance, Cork, Conception, Trinité) and capes (Ray, Ste Marie, Raz) and the cities of Montréal, Québec, Louisbourg with their innerlands.
Published In: Atlas Universel, Par M. Robert Geographe ordinaire du Roy, et Par M. Robert De Vaugondy son fils Geographe ord. du Roy, et de S. M. Polonoise, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar, et Associe de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et belles Lettres de Nancy, Avec Privilege Du Roy, 1757. A Paris, Chez Les Auteurs ,Quay de l'Horloge du Palais, Boudet Libraire Imprimeur du Roi, rue St. Jacques. Grave par Ch. Baquoy. J. Oger Scripsit.
Publication Note: 1st edition, with five postal maps added, as issued. With the list of subscribers and the extra postal maps of England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The French postal map is dated 1758.
All five were added after the printed list of maps was printed, but are mentioned by Vaugondy in the preface, so they may have been an afterthought. An owner has added their titles to the printed list of maps, in ms.
Engraved title page, Advertisement, and Geographical essay giving the sources of the maps. This atlas was reissued until 1799 (Phillips), with later issues having a map of the United States.
In original half leather patterned paper covered boards with spine reading "Nouvel Atlas De Mrs. Robert." One of the first atlases based on scientific surveys, in the tradition of D'Anville and De L'Isle. Outline color
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688–1766), also known as Le Sieur or Monsieur Robert, and his son, Didier Robert de Vaugondy (c.1723–1786), were leading mapmakers in France during the 1700s.
In 1757, they published The Atlas Universel, one of the most important atlases of the 18th century. To produce the atlas, the Vaugondys integrated older sources with more modern surveyed maps. They verified and corrected the latitude and longitude of many regional maps in the atlas with astronomical observations. The older material was revised with the addition of many new place names. In 1760, Didier Robert de Vaugondy was appointed geographer to Louis XV.
Gilles and Didier Robert De Vaugondy produced their maps and terrestrial globes working together as father and son. Globes of a variety of sizes were made by gluing copperplate-printed gores on a plaster-finished papier-mache core, a complicated and expensive manufacturing process, employing several specialists. In some cases it is uncertain whether Gilles or Didier made a given map. Gilles often signed maps as "M.Robert", while Didier commonly signed his maps as "Robert de Vaugondy", or added "fils" or "filio" after his name.
The Robert de Vaugondys were descended from the Nicolas Sanson family through Sanson's grandson, Pierre Moulard-Sanson; from him they inherited much of Sanson's cartographic material which they combined with maps and plates acquired after Hubert Jaillot's death in 1712 to form the basis the Atlas Universel. Sources from the Dépôt de la Marine, the official French repository for maritime-related information, were used for their maps of Canada and South America.
Like Ortelius and Mercator, the Vaugondy's credited their sources, which has greatly benefited the study of the history of cartography during that period.
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