Dencède, Antoine Victor (sold)
Antoine Victor Dencède (July 6 1858 - 19??) was a French printer and geographer, working in the late 19th and early 20th century; his print shop was situated at the 90 rue Amelot, Paris; beyond this, there is no record of his education, or death. Thanks to the electoral rolls of 1891, we have his birthdate, home town (Augh, of the Gers Department of France.) Without this, we would not even know his given names: his works were never signed beyond 'A. Dencède.' Beyond this, we know nothing apart from his surviving output. He printed the 1894 instalment of Album de Statistique Graphique on behalf of the French Ministere des Travaux Publics; he produced a long series of regional French maps to accompany the Annuaire du commerce Didot-Bottin from 1894 to 1903. In 1897 he produced the mammoth Mappemonde coloniale, also on behalf of Didot-Bottin. He was credited for engraving the maps in the 1925 edition of the Atlas du Bottin.
Global reach of fin-de-siècle colonial power.
Mappemonde coloniale. Possessions coloniales des Etats de l'Europe avec les câbles télégraphiques sous-marins et les lignes de navigation...
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This scarce, grand Belle-Epoque chromolithograph map of the world was created by Antoine Victor Dencède as a supplement to subscribers to the Didot-Bottin Commercial Almanac of 1897, in celebration of the publication's hundredth year. From its beginnings as an annual business directory for Paris, the Didot-Bottin Annuaire de Commerce grew in scope by the end of the 19th century to include not only all of France but also foreign cities and France's colonies. Thus, a world map of this sort - highlighting European colonial interests around the globe and the steamship connections binding them together - would have been eagerly received. (more details)