Buffier, Claude

French philosopher, historian and geographer. In 1715 he published a map, engraved by F. Desbruslins, of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, sometimes dated 1714, in his pocket atlas “Geographie Universelle” which went through many editions, languages, and publishers to 1790. Versions on this site by date and title:

1714: “LA POLOGNE Suivant les degrés de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, 1714”.
c. 1725 (?), c. 1758, 1767: “POLONIA Secondo le Observazioni dell’ Accademia di Parigi”.
1738, 1739, 1744: “LA POLOGNE Suivant les degrés de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, Desbrulins Sculp”.
1739, 1772: “LA POLOGNE Suivant les degrés de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, 1714”.
1750, 1752, 1759, 1768, 1789: “LA POLOGNE, Suivant les degrés de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, faure Sculp”. A Le Havre printer gives himself engraving credit.
1762, 1764, 1778: “LA POLOGNE Suivant les degrés de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris”.
1786: “LA POLOGNE,” with “Lemarie a Liege” below the left frameline.
1790: “LA POLONIA” Venice, re-engraved by Antonio Zatta, from an Italian edition of “Geografia Universale del Padre Claudio Buffier…” which had editions in 1757, 1767, 1777, 1782, 1785, 1790, 1792, and 1802.