1780 Map of South America, Rigobert Bonne

Amerique Meridionale 

Rigobert Bonne

1780 (undated)

13 x 9 in (33.02 x 22.86 cm)

Attractive 18th Century map published by Rigobert Bonne, the Royal Hydrographer. Bonne's atlas, which was issued in several editions, was one of the most commercially successful atlases of the 18th Century.

Bonne was one of the most influential French cartographers of the eighteenth century, so much so that he was chosen as the successor of Jacques Nicolas Bellin to the Depot de la Marine as a hydrograph of His Royal Highness Louis XVI.