Ancient Greece and the Balkans to the Danube, d'Anville Rollin Atlas, 1818
€ 325
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
Sheet size
35 × 30.5 cm (13.8 × 12.0 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14399-10
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 bottom and top edges. Foxing over much of the margin. Complete sheet, all four corners present. Minor edge wear, shallow nicks along the top.
About this sheet
An original copper engraved map, uncolored, of ancient Greece and the lands north of it as far as the Danube. The map runs from the heel of Italy and the Adriatic coast on the west to the Propontis and the western coast of Asia Minor on the east, and from the Danube, lettered Danubius Fl. upstream and Ister Fl. near its mouths, south to Crete. Macedonia, Thessaly and the Peloponnese are lettered in French, with Sirmium, Naissus, Sardica, Philippopolis and Odessus to the north, Byzantium on the Bosporus, and Thessalonica, Pella, Larissa, Delphi, Thebae, Athenae, Corinthus, Sparta and Olympia in Greece itself. The Aegean, lettered Mer Egée, carries Thasos, Lemnos, Lesbos, Chios and the Cyclades; Mysia, Lydia and Caria close the eastern edge with Pergamus, Smyrna, Ephesus and Miletus.
The cartouche at lower left reads La Grèce et les pays plus septentrionaux jusqu'au Danube, pour l'Histoire Ancienne de Rollin, par d'Anville, Géographe du Roi. The plate is numbered Pl. 10 above the upper right corner of the border. Three scale bars stand at the top of the map: Stades Olymp. évalués 94 Toi. 2 Pi. 8 Pou., Milles Romains évalués 755 Toises 3 Pieds. and Lieues Françoises de 3000 Pas Géometriques. The graticule is numbered in degrees on all four sides. This is a single sheet with no center fold.
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, author of the Histoire ancienne and the Histoire romaine. Its maps are engraved after the originals of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697 to 1782). In the foreword, signed by Ambroise Tardieu, géographe-graveur, Tardieu writes that the maps were copied with religious fidelity and that, charged with reviewing the proofs, he corrected only negligences and faults of execution. The map serves the Greek chapters of Rollin's ancient history, from the Greek mainland and islands to Macedonia and Thrace.
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.
