Les Indes Orientales (East Indies Map) - Robert de Vaugondy, 1751

Les Indes Orientales (East Indies Map) - Robert de Vaugondy, 1751Les Indes Orientales (The East Indies) Drawn by: Robert de Vaugondy (Gilles & Didier Robert de Vaugondy) Engraved by: Guillaume Nicolas Delahaye Published in: Paris Year: 1751 From: Atlas Universel (First published in 1757) Condition: Original outline coloring; decorative Rococo style title cartouche in the upper right, professionally matted. A Masterpiece of French Enlightenment Cartography This beautiful 1751 map by the renowned father son team

This area was the enclave of the British elite

spanning from the British Isles to the Far East

Drawn by: Rigobert Bonne (Hydrographer to the King of France)

While the map is primarily a scientific diagram

Decorative Cartouche: The title is framed by an elegant

and the Indochina coast

Signatures on such documents are highly valued in the hobby of scripophily (the study and collection of stock and bond certificates) for their historical provenance

filtered through the center of the Earth

Maritime Empire: The map tracks the vital trade routes between the Malay States

This plate depicts a heavy Chinese transport vessel in the Pearl River Delta

The Tearing Down of the "Unknown": By the late 1850s

continuous landmass labeled Terra Australis Incognita