PCT-56807

Antique Map of the Tuamotu Archipelago by Duperrey (1825)

  • Condition: Good, given age. Top of the three maps with some faint soiling. A thumbmark in the top left of the lowest of the maps. Right margin soiled. Some creasing in the lower margin, soiling in the lower left. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
  • Overall size: 44.7 x 60 cm.
  • Image size: 35.8 x 51 cm.
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.. Antique Map of the Tuamotu Archipelago by Duperrey (1825)

Description: Antique map titled 'Plan de l'Ile Narcisse; Plan de l'Ile Moller; Plan de l'ile Clermont-Tonnerre.' Three maps on one sheet of islands in the Tuamotus or the Tuamotu Archipelago (formerly Dangerous Archipel). These are a French Polynesian chain of almost 80 islands and atolls. All three maps also show a profile of the island depicted on the map. From Louis-Isidore Duperrey's "Voyage Autour du Monde", 1825.


Artists and Engravers: Author: Louis-Isidore Duperrey. Engraved by Ambroise Tardieu.