Carthaginian North Africa with Inset of the Environs of Carthage, 1818
€ 295
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1818
Mapmaker / artist
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, cartographer
Publisher
Ledoux et Tenré, Paris
Technique
Copper Engraving
Coloring
Uncolored
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14399-3
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Light uneven toning, browner toward the edges. Marked handling soiling along the top edge. Foxing over much of the margin. Complete sheet, all four corners present. Several larger brown marks. Shallow chipping along the top edge and a small crease in the upper right margin. Center fold as issued.
About this sheet
An original copper engraved map, uncolored, of the western and central Mediterranean as far as Carthaginian power reached. Espagne with Carthage la Neuve, the Isles Baleares, Sardaigne and Sicile lie to the north; along the African shore are Mauritanie, Numidie with Cirta, Hippo Zarytus, Utique and Carthage, and the coast runs east past the Petite Syrte to La Grande Syrte. A ruled inset at lower left, titled Les Environs de Carthage exprimés plus en détail, enlarges the city with Byrsa, Tunis, the Bagradas river and Cap Bon.
The cartouche at right reads Carte de la Partie de l'Afrique ou les Carthaginois ont étendu leur domination, dressée pour l'intelligence de l'Histoire ancienne de Rollin; par d'Anville, Géographe ord.re du Roi. The plate is numbered Pl. 3. above the upper right corner. Three scale bars are captioned Milles des Romains, évalués 755 Toises, Stades des Grecs, dont 8 font un Mille and Lieues Françaises, de 3000 Pas Géométriq.s; the inset has its own bars for Milles Rom. and Stades Grecs. No engraver is named on the sheet.
The plate comes from the Atlas de Géographie Ancienne, published in Paris in 1818 by Ledoux et Tenré and printed by Didot le jeune to accompany the works of Charles Rollin (1661 to 1741), the French historian whose Histoire ancienne the map was drawn to illustrate. The title page states that the atlas was engraved after the original maps of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697 to 1782). Its table of plates carries a foreword signed by Ambroise Tardieu, géographe-graveur, who writes that the maps were copied with religious fidelity and that, charged with reviewing the proofs, he had only negligences and defects of execution to correct. Carthage was the Phoenician city on the coast of present day Tunisia.
This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
