[Wall map]. [Europe]. DESNOS (Louis Charles). L'Europe, divi - Lot 32

[Wall map]. [Europe]. DESNOS (Louis Charles). L'Europe, divisée selon l'étendue de ses principales parties, et dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de Mesrs de l'Académie royale des sciences. Dedicated to Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris, L.C. Desnos, 1786. 1 copper-engraved map, cartouches enhanced with color (approx. 90 x 116 cm.) (map restored, browned, dampened and slightly missing). Rare and spectacular wall map of Europe. It covers the continent from off the coast of Spain to the west of the Caspian Sea, including Turkey and the coasts of northern Africa; it extends northwards to include Iceland and most of New Zealand. The ocean is decorated with ships and a cartouche containing the dedication to the Dauphin, the address, date and scale. It is framed by a border depicting and describing the main peoples of the European continent. In a cartouche at bottom right, Desnos advertises for sale "all kinds of Mathematical Instruments".