Antique Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville Maps

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782), a cartographer and geographer, was appointed Geographer to the King of France 1773. D'Anville reformed the practice of cartography by relying on actual surveys and new research, instead of on earlier maps. When d'Anville made maps of ancient or contemporary geography, he left unknown areas and unproven information about the continents blank and marked as the areas as such. All of his maps of France, America (1720-30s), China (1735), Italy (1743), Africa (1749), Asia (1751), India (1752), and the world (1761), were highly respected for their accuracy and detailed measurements of distance. In 1787 Thomas Jefferson bought seven maps by D’Anville and used them for reference, and Meriwether Lewis tried to obtain a copy of "Carte de la Louisiane" (1732) before starting on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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