Artist / Author / Cartographer:

De Guignes, Christian Louis Joseph

Title:

Carte des Iles Philippines

Date:

1808

Medium:

copper engraving

Size:

25.7 x 18.6 cm

Description:

Carte des Isles Philippines

 

A map of the Philippine Islands originally  drawn by the cartographer Felipe Bauza during the Malaspina expedition to the Philippines in 1791. It was engraved by Dhandon and published in Paris in 1808.

 

Christian Louis Joseph De Guignes {1750 - 1849} learned Chinese from his father Joseph de Guignes who was a reknowned orientalist and sinologist. He spent 17 years as a Consul at Canton before returning to France in 1801. He was author of a book of travel, Voyages a Pekin, Manile et L'ile de France in 1808.

 

Reference

de Guignes, Joseph   Voyages a Peking, Manille et l'lle de France : faits dans l'intervalle des annees 1784 a 1801. Paris 1808.

Geldart, Peter   Mapping the Philippine Seas 2017 page 109.

Carlos Quirino's Philippine Cartography 4th edition 2018. Page 192.

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Item Code:

MA6066

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