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Decorative and detailed map of Africa, exhibiting the present knowledge of Europeans in the first half of the 18th Century.
The cartography along the coasts is relatively accurate, but the interior is still largely myth and conjecture. Large decorative cartouche and a second decorative advertisement in the lower left corner.
Based upon the work of Guillaume De L'Isle.
Jean-Claude Dezauche (fl. 1780-1838) was a French map publisher. Initially, his work focused on engraving music, but he later turned primarily to cartography. His is best known for editing and reissuing the maps of Guilluame De L’Isle and Philippe Buache, two of the most skilled mapmakers of the eighteenth century. He acquired the plates of these two men’s work in 1780 from Buache’s heir, Jean-Nicolas Buache. Dezauche's business received a further boon when he received a privilege to sell the charts of the Dépôt de la Marine. His business was carried on by his son, Jean-Andre Dezauche.
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