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[MAP - ASIA]. ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'. Prémière Partie de la Carte d'Asie contenant la Turquie, l'Arabie, la Perse, l'Inde en deça du Gange et de la Tartarie ce qui est limitrophe de la Perse et de l'Inde. Publiée sous les auspices de Monseigneur Le Duc d'Orleans prémier Prince du Sang.
[Paris], Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, 1751.
WITH: Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'. Asiæ, quæ vulgò Minor dicitur, et Syriæ tabula geographica quantùm per subsidia licuit elaborata, opere, si quod aliud in antiquâ geographiâ, arduo quam tabulam Clariss. Dom. Comes De Caylus in ære incidi curavit.
[Paris], Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, 1764. Two engraved maps, that of Asia on 2 sheets (together 72 x 73 cm) at a scale of ca. 1:7,000,000, with the title in an ornamental cartouche at the foot and a set of 12 related scales. The map of Asia Minor on 1 sheet (49 x 60 cm) at a scale of ca. 1:2,500,000, with the title at the head, 2 inset maps of the Dardanelles and Bosporus, and a set of 6 scales below left. Both maps coloured in outline by a contemporary hand, divided into segments (20 and 9 respectively) and mounted on linen. In a contemporary slip-case covered with blue paper and with a red morocco label gold-tooled with rococco decorated capitals.
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Two maps of the western and southern part of the Asian continent and a major part of the Ottoman empire (modern Turkey and surrounding areas, including Cyprus, most of Crete and the Black Sea, and streatching as far south as Damascus) by Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. Both maps radiate the refined and remarkably modern features so characteristic of his broad oeuvre. In this respect D'Anville is known as a spirited representative of French cartography of the second half of the eighteenth century. Both maps were engraved by Guillaume De la Haye (name below left in the Asia map, explicitly as engraver, and below right in the Asia Minor), with the cartouche of the Asia map signed "H. Gravelot, invenit" and "DeLafosse, sculpsit."
Although the Asia map is referred to as the "Prémière Partie De La Carte D'Asie", it was published as a separate edition, as were the second and third parts that followed in 1752 and 1753. Both maps in good condition, with only minor foxing and in the Asia map 2 very small stains. Slip case (with 'l'Asie' in a decorated border) slightly rubbed. Maps of Asia and Asia Minor by the leading and most innovative cartographer of his day.
