L'Empire de la Chine: Robert de Vaugondy 1754

Title: L'Empire de la Chine Author: Didier Robert de Vaugondy Date: 1754 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning and foxing, issued center fold Inches: 21 1/2 x 19 1/2 [Platemark] Centimeters: 54.61 x 49.53 [Platemark] Product ID: 224029 Hand colored map of China from Robert de Vaugondy's Atlas Universale. Shows provinces with major cities, lakes, and rivers. Elaborate title cartouche in lower right corner with European depictions of China's people, flora, fauna, dwellings, and pottery. Scale cartouche lower left corner. Didier Robert de Vaugondy (c. 1723-1786) was an 18th-century French geographer and cartographer who, along with his father Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, was a leading figure in the mapmaking industry in Paris during this period. Didier came from a family of cartographers, as his father Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766) was a mathematics professor and mapmaker who had inherited a share of the Nicolas Sanson f