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Nicolas Sanson: Asie . . . 1650 [with unusual depiction of the West Coast of North America and the Island of Corey]
Title: Asie . . . 1650 [with unusual depiction of the West Coast of North America and the Island of Corey] Map Maker: Nicolas Sanson
Description: Influential map of Asia by Nicolas Sanson, map maker to the King of France and the most influential map maker of the mid-17th Century. The map includes several unusual features. Korea is shown as an island (Corey). The configuration of the Philippines is unusual. Lastly, Sanson shows a narrow Straits of Anian and the Kingdoms of Anian, Quivira and Nouvelle Albion, along with Sierra Nevada, all along the Norhwest Coast of America. This feature is of particular note, in that it differs from Sanson's 1650 map of North America, which omits any northwestern coastline and also does not identify the location of the Sierra Nevada. Nicolas Sanson was perhaps the most influential map make of the mid-17th Century. His maps were copied, both in France and abroad, for much of the rest of the 17th and early 18th centuries, including by such map makers as Richard Blome, Giovanni Rossi and others. References: Sultan Bin Muh. Al-Qasimi, p60; Tibbetts 99.
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