Îles Détachées d'Angleterre

Map taken from ' Géographie moderne, rédigée sur un nouveau plan, ou Description historique, politique, civile et naturelle des empires, royaumes, Etats et leurs colonies.: renfermant la concordance des principaux points de la géographie ancienne et du moyen âge, avec la géographie modern ' French translation of John Pinkerton's treatise on Geography, published in Paris in 1804. The maps are elaborated by Jean-Nicolas Buache on those drawn by Aaron Arrowsmith for the English edition of Pinkerton's treatise. Jean-Nicolas Buache de La Neuville was a French hydrographer and geographer active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Director of the Dépôt des Cartes de la Marine, he was the last to hold the title "first geographer to the king." Elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1770, he was commissioned by Louis XVI to draw up maps of the bailiwicks of the kingdom of France in 1788. J. N. Buache was an ardent supporter of the radical cartographic ideas of his uncle, Phillip Buache, regarding the hypothesized existence of a "northwest passage." Like Phillip, Jean Nicholas believed that theoretical cartography, that is, the application of geographical theories, could fill in the empty places on the globe before actual explorers went there. Etching with beautiful contemporary coloring, in excellent condition. Cfr.