Janvier & Longchamps: Mappe Monde, Contenant les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, 1754

Title:  Mappe Monde, Contenant les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre Author: Jean Janvier and S. G. Longchamps Date: 1754, Paris Condition: See description Inches: 58.25 x 47 Centimeters: 147.95 x 119.38 Product ID: 308308 Exquisite World Map Narrating the Tale of Creation Elaborately engraved double-hemisphere wall map of the world, engraved on 2 sheets, surrounded by elaborate borders on 6 sheets.  General title cartouche upper center, separate title banderoles above each hemisphere, celestial hemispheres and armillary sphere below, decorative border with 17 pictorial vignettes showing scenes from the Book of Genesis; the Creation story, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, and the origins of the Arts, Architecture, and Agriculture. The map could originally be purchased with or without borders.  All examples are rare, those with borders especially so. The Cartography Gobert-Denis Chambon engraved this copper map based on Guillaume De L'Isle's work.  This is the second stat