Antique Maps
The southern Black Sea
L'ISLE, Guillaume de · Amsterdam · Jean Covens and Corneille Mortier · c. 1744
De l'Isle's map of the southern Black Sea and the Anatolian coast, in the Amsterdam edition of Covens and Mortier, with original outline colour.
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Key Properties
Region: Southern Black Sea and the coast of Anatolia
Technique: Copper engraving, original outline colour
Size: sheet c. 66 x 54 cm (26 x 21 1/4 in)
From: De l'Isle, Nouvel atlas, Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, c. 1744
Condition
Very good to excellent (according to the seller's general report); possible occasional tears, creases or minor offsetting from the fold.
References & Bibliography
Koeman, C., Atlantes Neerlandici (Covens & Mortier).
Description
The companion sheet to De l'Isle's map of the northern Black Sea, showing the southern half of the sea and the Ottoman coast of Anatolia.
Guillaume de l'Isle (1675-1726), son of a cartographer and a pupil of Jean-Dominique Cassini, brought the astronomical observations of the Paris Observatory into geography and set new standards of accuracy, revising his maps constantly. After his death his maps were reissued in Amsterdam by Jean Covens and Corneille Mortier, who made them available to a far wider public.
Historical Significance
An eighteenth-century map of the Black Sea by the leading French geographer of his time.