Isles Philippines

  • New
Reference: S48900
Author Georg Louis le ROUGE
Year: 1748
Zone: Philippines
Printed: Paris
Measures: 285 x 220 mm
€300.00

  • New
Reference: S48900
Author Georg Louis le ROUGE
Year: 1748
Zone: Philippines
Printed: Paris
Measures: 285 x 220 mm
€300.00

Description

Small map of the Philippine Islands based on the survey by Murillo Velarde.

Map from ‘Atlas Nouveau Portatif’; pl. 83; A military engineer by profession, le Rouge took up cartography and produced many attractive works covering a wide range of subjects including plans of fortifications, military campaigns, town plans, sea charts and atlases between the years 1740 and 1780.

Etching with original outline colour, good condition.

Bibliografia

Quirino pp. 93 / 94; Moreland & Bannister, p. 134.

Georg Louis le ROUGE (1721-1790 circa)

A military engineer by profession, Le Rouge took up cartography and over a long period from about 1740 to 1780 produced many attractive works covering a wide range of subjects, including plans of fortifications, military campaigns, town plans as well as the more usual atlases and sea charts. 1741-62 Atlas General 1742 Recueil des cartes Nouvelles (including a reissue on reduced scale of Henry Popple’s map of America of 1733) 1748 Atlas Nouveau Portatif (4to) 1756,c.1767 re-issued 1755 Recueil des Plans de l’ Amerique(8vo) 1756 Introduction de Geographie 1758 Atlas Prussien 1759 recueil des villes ,portes d’ Angleterre (8vo) 1760 Topographie des Chemins d’ Angleterre (8vo) 1778 Atlas Ameriquain Septentrional

Georg Louis le ROUGE (1721-1790 circa)

A military engineer by profession, Le Rouge took up cartography and over a long period from about 1740 to 1780 produced many attractive works covering a wide range of subjects, including plans of fortifications, military campaigns, town plans as well as the more usual atlases and sea charts. 1741-62 Atlas General 1742 Recueil des cartes Nouvelles (including a reissue on reduced scale of Henry Popple’s map of America of 1733) 1748 Atlas Nouveau Portatif (4to) 1756,c.1767 re-issued 1755 Recueil des Plans de l’ Amerique(8vo) 1756 Introduction de Geographie 1758 Atlas Prussien 1759 recueil des villes ,portes d’ Angleterre (8vo) 1760 Topographie des Chemins d’ Angleterre (8vo) 1778 Atlas Ameriquain Septentrional