Longitude Latitude 1667 de Fer Boisseau rare set 4 engravings maps cartography
Longitude Latitude 1667 de Fer Boisseau rare set 4 engravings maps cartography Longitude Latitude 1667 de Fer Boisseau rare set 4 engravings maps cartography Longitude Latitude 1667 de Fer Boisseau rare set 4 engravings maps cartography Longitude Latitude 1667 de Fer Boisseau rare set 4 engravings maps cartography Longitude Latitude 1667 de Fer Boisseau rare set 4 engravings maps cartography Longitude Latitude 1667 de Fer Boisseau rare set 4 engravings maps cartography Longitude Latitude 1667 de Fer Boisseau rare set 4 engravings maps cartography
$ 600.00

Issued 1667, France by Jean Boisseau and Antoine de Fer (d.1673- father of Nicholas).

Copper engraved, collection of four folio sheets.

Thematic cartography related-engravings, showing the distances between places, but here with a curious pictorial twist which emphasizes scientific latitude and longitude locations in regular comparison columns as well as the locations political features.

Set also unwittingly captures and displays various interesting signs of engraved plate alterations prior to their printing, mentioned for historical curiosity sake as opposed to monetary significance.

A very rare complete assemblage of four separately produced 17th century engraved sheets related to locating hundreds of specific French cities, towns and villages from the cartographic perspective of their location of longitude and latitude. Produced when common accurate knowledge of determining longitude was still emerging as a science and could regularly result in the loss of a ship during a voyage due to being unable to obtain it accurately while sailing.

Sheets each measures c. 13 7/8" H x 16 3/4" W. or slightly larger.

Printed area of each measures c. 11 7/8" H x 13 3/8" W.

Andrews, The Quest for Longitude, p. 14 (Alistair Cooke), p. 57 noting Halley Trade Winds map of 1686, ibid.

Sobel, Illustrated Longitude, p. 47, et al.

Delaney, Landmark Thematic Maps, pp. 4-7 (map keys & distance scales).

Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, v. 1, p. 139 (noting Boisseau was a geographer, topographer, colourist and genealogist); v. 2, p. 59 (noting the de Fer family lineage by date).

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