Spanish Southwest in Cyrillic

By BONNE, Rigobert, 1780

[Cyrillic map: Mexico And Southern States].

America North America

Author: BONNE, Rigobert
Publication place: Paris / St.Petersburg
Publisher: R.Bonne / J.Lattre
Publication date: c1780.
Physical description: Engraved map with original hand-colour in outline.
Dimensions: 300 by 410mm. (11.75 by 16.25 inches).
Inventory reference: 2296

Notes

A very rare Cyrillic map of the Spanish south-west, Texas, the southern States and Florida, from Chesapeake Bay to California, with Mexico and Central America. After Bonne and Lattre’s map “Carte du Mexique ou de la [Nouvelle] Espagne contenant aussi le Nouveau Mexique, la Californie, avec une partie des pays adjacents”, Paris, 1771, the title appers in a similarly asymmetrical rococo cartouche lower left. This Cyrillic version of the map appeared in one of the first world atlases published in Russia; “Novy Atlas, ili sobranie kart …” which translates as “New Atlas or a collection of Maps of All Parts of the Globe Obtained from Various Compilers and printed in St.Petersburg in 1793 by the Mining School for the Use of Youths”.

Bonne (1727–1795) succeeded Jacques Nicolas Bellin as Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer at the Depôt de la Marine. Lattre (fl1743-1795) published his ‘Atlas Moderne’ in 1762, to accompany de la Croix’s ‘Geographie Moderne’. He also engraved maps for Robert de Vaugondy, Janvier and Bonne.

Biography

Rigobert Bonne (1727–1795)

A French mathematician and mapmaker, known for a clear cartographic style without the decoration favoured by some of his contemporaries, Rigobert Bonne was appointed chief hydrographer at the Dépot de la Marine in 1773. He succeeded Jacques Nicolas Bellin as Royal Cartographer. In 1762, he published what was arguably his most important work, the Atlas Moderne, ou Collection cartes Sur Toutes Les Parties du Globe Terrestre. He collaborated with Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1805) on the publication of the Atlas encylopédique, which included both historical and contemporary maps. His Atlas portatif générale, made use of the work of fellow French cartographer Louis Brion de la Tour.

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