18th Century Maps
Carte de la Coste D'Arabia, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse. 1740
1740 Map of the Arabian Peninsula including parts of present-day Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Jordan, and Kuwait.
Cartographer: Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de Nouveau Continental (Map of the New World), 1749
1749 Map of North and South America.
Cartographer: Robert de Vaugondy (and son Didier de Vaugondy)
Pays Bas Catholiques (Catholics of the Netherlands), 1750
1750 Map of the Catholic provinces of Flanders.
Cartographer: Robert de Vaugondy.
Isles- Britanniques (Isles of Brittania), 1780
1780 Map of Great Britain and Ireland.
Cartographer: Rigobert Bonne.
Les Etats Unis de L'Amérique Septentrionale (The United State of North America), 1781
1781 Map of US portraying the east coast and Canada.
Cartographer: Rigobert Bonne
Mappa Dispersûs Filiorum Noemi (Map of Dispersal of Sons of Noah), 1787
1781 Map showing the dispersal of sons of Noah.
Cartographer: Rigobert Bonne
This map, published in the 1787 Atlas Encyclopedique, features a Armenia, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Syria, and Babylonia, and covers modern day Libya, Eygpt, Arabia, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. This map portrays the dispersal, following the Biblical Flood, of the three sons Shem, Ham and Japeth, and their descendants.
Mappe - Monde, 1787
1787 Map of North and South America.
Cartographer: Rigobert Bonne
L'Amerique, 1790's
1790's Map of North and South America.
Cartographer: Robert de Vaugondy
