Mentelle and Chanlaire
1798

Attractive antique map of Florida, Cuba, and Bahamas

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Carte de l'Isle de Cuba et des Isles Lucayes

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Beautifully engraved and hand-colored map of southern Florida, Cuba, and the Bahama Islands (or Lucayes) from 1798. Points of interest in Floida include the Florida Keys (les Martyres), Port St. Lucie (Punta de Santa Lucia), Palm Beach (Cap della Floride), Cape Biscayne (Cap Biscaino). Beautifully engraved by Pierre Tardieu.

Published from Paris by French cartographers E. Mentelle and Pierre-Giles Chanlaire. Edme Mentelle (1730 - 1816) was a French geographer and historian in Paris who studied under the historian Jean-Baptiste Louis Crevier at the College of Beauvais. After accepting a position as professor of Geology and History at the Ecole Militaire he tutored students including the young Napoleon Bonaparte. Mentelle published a number of important geographical works including the 1778 Geographie Comparee, the 1779 Atlas Universel, and the 1801 Cours Complet de Cosmographie, de Chronologie, de Geographie et d'Histoire. Plate 3.

CREATOR: Mentelle and Chanlaire

PUBLICATION DATE: 1798

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: Cuba

BODY OF WATER: Caribbean Sea

CONDITION: Good.  Clean with a hint of age toning at the margins. Fine impression. On heavy, old chain-laid paper. Ample margins. Tiny chip to margin.

COLORING: Original outline hand color.

ENGRAVER: Pierre Tardieu

SIZE: 16 " x 13 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0

PRICE: $

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