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Carte de la partie de l'océan vers l'Equateur entre les côtes d'Afrique et d'Amérique
[Paris]
1737
Size :
56 x 76,5 cm
Color :
Original colors
Condition :
A
Technique :
Copper engraving
Reference : CPV-45-83
€300.00
Description
A fine example of the interesting geo-hydrographic map of the Atlantic Ocean and its islands.
An interesting map aiming to highlight the islands of the Atlantic Ocean. It is divided into two with the Atlantic Ocean encompassing the coasts of Africa and Brazil on one side, and with a detailed examination of the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha on the other. A note at the top right corner explains that this map is drawn based on the observations of the Royale Academy of Sciences in 1737.
Two cross sections diagrams appear on the map. At the top right a cartouche contains a diagram of what is below sea level. Another one in the lower right corner shows particularities of what is below sea-level of the island Fernando de Noronha.
BUACHE, Philippe
Philippe Buache (1700-1773) was a student of Guillaume Delisle and a renowned French geographer. After Delisle's death in 1726, he went into partnership with his widow and married his daughter in 1729. In the same year he was appointed Premier Géographe du Roi and the following year he was elected member of the Académie des Sciences. Philippe Buache forms a complete contrast with his predecessor. He was one of the main protagonists of theoretical geography and, in collaboration with Joseph Nicolas De l'Isle, produced some of the most fantastic and inaccurate maps of Western America ever printed. Nevertheless, Buache made some contribution to the progress of cartography. He was one of the pioneers of physical geography dividing both land and water into mountain ranges and basins. He was the first to suggest that America and Asia had once been joined at the Bering Strait, and one of the first to take advantage of the contour or isobath technique in his 1737 map of the English Channel.
Tooley - The mapping of America 43; Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas, pl. 19, pp. 98-9; Schwartz/ Ehrenberg, pp. 140; Kohl,Lowery Collection, p. 230; Cumming, Southeast, no. 170