L'Amérique Méridionale
L'Amérique Méridionale
BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis

L'Amérique Méridionale

Paris
Esnauts et Rapilly
1791
Size : 75 x 53 cm
Color : Coloris original
Condition : Très bon
Reference : 513-10
$325

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Beautiful and large map of South America by Esnauts and Rapilly, with contours colored at the time. The map is decorated with an elegant allegorical cartouche and one can see the division of South America at the dawn of the 19th century.

BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis

Louis Brion de la Tour was an engineer and the geographer to the King of France, he was also an engraver and draughtsman active in Paris between 1756 and 1803.  He specialized in postal routes and collaborated with Desnos. In 1776, he signed his own map of France's post offices with the name Brion. This map was reissued under the Empire and Restoration under the name Brion de La Tour. 

He was the author of an Atlas général, civil et ecclésiastique that was published in its first edition in 1766, of several works with maps, including a Voyage dans les départements de la France, 1792-1802, and an Atlas géographique et statistique de la France (1st ed., 1802).

Louis Brion de la Tour is to not be mistaken for his son also named Louis who was an engraver and draughtsman active till 1823.

Source : IdRef - Identifiants et Référentiels pour l'ESR