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Rare Russian edition of Jean Lattre's 1771 map of Mexico, published in 1793.
The map utilized the same copper plate as Lattre's 1771 map, but all of the place names are replaced with Cyrillic spellings.
Rarity
The map is very rare on the market.
This is the first example we have seen offered for sale.
Jean Lattré (fl. 1743-1793) was a Parisian bookseller and engraver who published many maps, plans, globes, and atlases. He worked closely with other important French cartographers, including Janvier, Bonne, and Delamarche, as well as other European mapmakers, such as William Faden, Santini, and Zannoni. Lattré is also interesting due to his propensity to bring suits against those who copied his work; plagiarism was common practice in eighteenth-century cartography and mapmakers struggled to maintain proprietary maps and information.
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