Hand-coloured copperplate engraving.

By the Sanson family of cartographers.

Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) was a French cartographer who served under two kings in matters of geography. He has been called the "father of French cartography."
Sanson's maps were used as a model by his son, Guillaume, and, at least initially, by Pierre Duval, his nephew, in his 1664 folio map and 1660 atlas minor map.
Outside of France, Sanson influenced the Italian mapmakers Giovan Battista Nicolosi, Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (1677), and Paolo Petrini. In England, Richard Blome (1669) used his map.
Sanson continued to influence later mapmakers to 1700 through his association with Alexis-Hubert Jaillot and, to a lesser degree, Duval.

610mm x 440mm

R11,500