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First edition of Nicolas Sanson's detailed early regional map of Centeral America, from Sanson's small Atlas of America, first published in 1657.
The map extends from the Gulf of Panama and Y. de Perlas to the Southern part of the Yucatan, including the Gulf of Guanajos, the Gulf of Honduras, Tabasco, Tlacala, Chiapas and Soconusco. The map shows a massive Logo de Nicaragua and names many towns, rivers, mountains, lakes, islands, ports, gulfs, an essential map for 17th Century Central American Collectors. One of the earliest obtainable regional maps of this area.
From the 1657 edition of Sanson's L'Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles. . . , the third atlas to focus solely upon America.
Nicholas Sanson (1600-1667) is considered the father of French cartography in its golden age from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. Over the course of his career he produced over 300 maps; they are known for their clean style and extensive research. Sanson was largely responsible for beginning the shift of cartographic production and excellence from Amsterdam to Paris in the later-seventeenth century.
Sanson was born in Abbeville in Picardy. He made his first map at age twenty, a wall map of ancient Gaul. Upon moving to Paris, he gained the attention of Cardinal Richelieu, who made an introduction of Sanson to King Louis XIII. This led to Sanson's tutoring of the king and the granting of the title ingenieur-geographe du roi.
His success can be chalked up to his geographic and research skills, but also to his partnership with Pierre Mariette. Early in his career, Sanson worked primarily with the publisher Melchior Tavernier. Mariette purchased Tavernier’s business in 1644. Sanson worked with Mariette until 1657, when the latter died. Mariette’s son, also Pierre, helped to publish the Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (1658), Sanson' atlas and the first French world atlas.
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