Clouet, Jean Baptiste Louis (1730-c.1790). Set of Four Continental Wall Maps. Paris: Mondhare, 1788.

CLOUET, Jean Baptiste Louis (1730-c.1790). [Wall Maps] Set of four continental maps...Carte d'Amerique divisee en ses principaux pays; Carte d'Asie divisee en ses principaux etats; Carte d'Europe divisee en ses empires et royaumes;Carte d'Afrique divisee en ses principaux Etats... Engraved map with original hand color. Paris: Mondhare, 1788. 38 1/2" x 49 1/2" visible, 42" x 53" framed, each. Easily some of the most decorative continental maps to be published in the second half of the eighteenth century. These Clouet / Mondhare maps were engraved by Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet and published by Louis Joseph Mondhare, in Paris. Jean-Baptiste Louis Clouet (1730-ca. 1790) was a mapmaker with premises in both Paris and Cadiz. He was eventually named Royal Geographer of the Academie des Sciences de Rouen. Although he made several lavish wall maps, he is best known for Geographie Moderne (1776-93). Louis Joseph Mondhare (1734-99) was a native of Bougy, but he worked in Paris from 1759 until his death as an engraver, geographer, and print seller.