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1782 Delisle de Sales Map of Southern Greece
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Title
Carte du Peloponese, pour servir a l'Histoire de la Grece.
1782 (undated) 9 x 13.5 in (22.86 x 34.29 cm) 1 : 1500000
1782 (undated) 9 x 13.5 in (22.86 x 34.29 cm) 1 : 1500000
Description
This is a beautiful 1782 map of southern Greece by Jean- Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales. The map covers the entire Peloponnese peninsula including the islands of Ithaca, Cephalonia, Zaknythos or Zante and Cythera. It also includes the southern part of Euboea. Numerous towns and cities as well as regional units are identified throughout. The map also notes several rivers, islands and other topographic features, with mountains rendered in profile.
When this map was drawn this region was dominated by the waning Ottoman hegemony. The Ottomans would nevertheless continue to exert a powerful influence on this region until the early 19th century.
This map was issued as part of Delisle de Sales' Histoire des Hommes. Partie de l'Histoire Moderne. This volume is exceedingly rare as most of Sales' work was burnt under the censorship of heresy.
When this map was drawn this region was dominated by the waning Ottoman hegemony. The Ottomans would nevertheless continue to exert a powerful influence on this region until the early 19th century.
This map was issued as part of Delisle de Sales' Histoire des Hommes. Partie de l'Histoire Moderne. This volume is exceedingly rare as most of Sales' work was burnt under the censorship of heresy.
Cartographer
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales or Jean-Baptiste Isoard de Lisle (1741–1816) was a French philosopher, historian, and accused heretic active in the late 18th century. Sales is best known for his publication of the multi-volume opus The Philosophy of Nature: Treatise on Human Moral Nature. The work, among other ideas, challenged the Biblical theory that the earth was created in 4004 BC. Instead, Sales put forth the theory based upon astronomical observations, that the earth was 140,000 years old. Sales' revolutionary ideas caused him to be declared a heretic by the Catholic Church. His publications were subsequently censored and, for the most part, destroyed. As a consequence all of his works are today extremely rare. Sales was also, notably, a close friend of Voltaire who in 1777 visited him in prison, gifting him 500 pounds towards his release. Delisle de Sales is unrelated to the more famous De L'Isle family of cartographers. More by this mapmaker...
Source
Delisle de Sales, Histoire des Hommes. Partie de l'Histoire Moderne, (Paris) 1782.
Condition
Very good. Minor wear along original fold lines. Original platemark visible. Minor offsetting. Minor spotting at a couple of places. Verso repair over minor worm hole in lower right quadrant. Blank on verso.