Archived Record - Auction Closed!! Auction #102, closed March, 2003

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26 Carte des Deux Continents 1789 Robert de Vaugondy (family) World 11.5" x 9.3" $90.00 This unusual little chart compares the angle and degree of continental offset from north and south. This map was published in the Buffon's thirty-six volume Histoire Naturelle (1749-1789). Georges Louis LeClerc, the Comte de Buffon, was a French naturalist, and the author of one of the earliest accounts of the global history of biology and geology that was based on empirical evidence, per Sir Isaac Newton.