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DE L'ISLE, Guillaume (1675-1726)
Carte du Diocese de Narbonne
Paris: chez G. Del'Isle sur le Quai de l'Horloge..., 1704 [but, with revisions, 1731]. Engraved with period outline colour. Printed on thick laid paper. In very good condition, mild soiling near the top edge at fold, mostly marginal . Sheet size: 20 x 25 3/4 inches.
An excellent 18th century map of the Narbonne in southeastern France by the celebrated French cartographer, Guillaume de L'Isle.
Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726) was the son of a cartographer and a pupil of Jean Dominique Cassini, who, among other important contributions, aligned the study of astronomy to the study of geography. Under Cassini's direction, observations were made from locations all over the world that enabled longitudinal calculations to be made with much greater accuracy. De l'Isle carried on this exacting work with remarkable dedication and integrity, constantly revising and improving his maps. While precision was his primary goal, his maps are also invariably elegant and attractive.
This map is from an edition of De L'Isle's Atlas de Geographie, which was re-issued posthumously from 1730 to 1774. This extensively indexed map employs an alphabetical and numerical grid for locating specific sites. One can locate the medieval strongholds of the Cathars in Carcassone and farther south: Peyrepetuse (Peirepetuse on the map), for example.There is also an inset map of the city of Narbonne, also keyed and indexed.
Moreland and Bannister, Antique Maps p. 132; Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, 395
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#18750 $350.00 
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© 2002-2005 Donald A. Heald
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