1845 MONIN & VUILLEMIN UNUSUAL ANTIQUE 2 HEMISPHERES COPPER ENGRAVED WORLD MAP

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Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual original colored lithographic map of the World, in Eastern & Western Hemispheres. The map is filled with topographic detail on cities, rivers, lakes, reliefs and islands.

Date: 1845 ( dated )

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 48,5 x 33,6

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Map old original colored. Small foxing and browning. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images.

Mapmakers: Charles V. Monin (1830 - 1880) was a French map publisher working the early to mid 19th century. A progressive printer, Monin was one of the first cartographic printers in Europe to take advantage of the newly discovered lithographic engraving process. His workshops in Paris and Caen, France, produced three important atlases as well as numerous independent issue maps. Monin was a member of La Sociéte de Géographie in Paris. He is known to have worked with other French map publishers including Vuillemin and Fremin.

Alexandre Aimé Vuillemin (1812 - 1880) was an engraver, publisher, and editor based in Paris, France in the middle of the 19th century. Despite a prolific publishing career, much of Vuillemin's life is shrouded in mystery. In 1852, he married Josephine Caroline Goret and they had at least one child, Ernestine Adèle Vuillemin, later in the same year. What is known is that his studied under the prominent French Auguste Henri Dufour (1798 - 1865). Vuillemin's most important work his detailed, highly decorative large format Atlas Illustre de Geographie Commerciale et Industrielle.