The first atlas of Argentina, written for the country’s new government by a French geographer.
Creator: Victor Martin de Moussy, with assistance and preface by Louis Bouvet
Date of Creation: 1869
Place of origin: Paris
Physical measurements: 48cm x 34cm, 24 pages of text, 29 plates
Materials: Paper
Process by which it was made: Print
Current location: Multiple copies.
Further Reading
Andermann, Jens. The Optic of the State. Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
Bernstein, David. How the West Was Drawn: Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Craib, Raymond B. Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
Monmonier, Mark. “The Rise of the National Atlas.” In Images of the World: The Atlas through History, eds. John A. Wolter and Ronald E. Grim. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997. 369–399.
Solnit, Rebecca. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Information contributed by Brian Bockelman.