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Striking map of the Philippines and Southeast Asia, from and early edition of Brue's Atlas Universel.
Provides a clean and up to date image of the region, which had only recently been extensively mapped and explored by the French and English.
A color key notes the various colonial powers, Dutch, Spanish, Portugese, Soulou and "Princes indigienes."
Andre Hubert Brué was a French geographer and cartographer. Born in Paris, he served in the French Navy, joining the Baudin expedition to the Pacific (1800-1804). After his sea service, Brué applied his navigation and charting skills to creating finely-crafted maps, which were renowned for their crisp engraving and accuracy. He drew directly on the copper of the plate, creating what he called encyprotypes. He is best known for the Atlas universal de géographie physique, politique, ancienne et moderne.
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