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Nicolas Sanson and Hubert Jaillot
Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600 to 1667), géographe ordinaire du roi to Louis XIII and Louis XIV, is the founder of the French school of cartography. Where the Dutch atlases of Blaeu and Janssonius were works of the engraver, Sanson's maps were works of the geographer: sober, methodical, built on the sources and organised by political divisions. His America of 1650 introduced the island of California in its second form and the five Great Lakes; his quarto atlases of the continents (1656 to 1657) were copied for a century, in Amsterdam by Anthonie de Winter for the Dutch edition of De la Croix.
Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632 to 1712) re-engraved Sanson's maps on a grand scale for his Atlas nouveau of 1681 and the series à l'usage de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne, and gave French cartography the splendour that the Dutch had had.
Our collection holds Sanson's maps in the Dutch edition of 1705 and Jaillot's Ottoman Empire of 1696.
In our collection 5
Composite atlas, without title
Estats de l'Empire du Grand Seigneur des Turcs, en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique (The Ottoman Empire), à l'usage de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne
Florida zoo als het van de Spaanschen en Franschen wordt bezeten (Florida as held by the Spanish and the French)
De Antillische Eilanden, waar onder zyn de Lucaysche en Caribesche (The West Indies)
