De Fer, Nicholas. Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de la Terre. Paris: 1712 [1730, Fifth State].

DE FER, Nicolas (1646-1720). Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de la Terre. Engraved map with original hand color. Paris: 1712 [1730, Fifth State].

40" x 58 3/4" sheet, 46 1/2" x 65 1/2" framed.

A Magnificent Neoclassical Map of the World Showing the full extent of the Sun King, Louis XIV’s Domains.

This separately published world map is described within the surrounding text as a reduced version of a map prepared several years earlier, a four-sheet map made by De Fer and Hendrik van Loon in 1694. The text also purports that this map is the first to be based upon celestial observations of the Royal Academy of Sciences.