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Striking large and highly detailed map of the eastern Mediterranean and contiguous regions, from Jaillot's monumental atlas. Shows Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, etc and extend from the Euphrates to Cyprus to the Red Sea, Lower Nile and Lybian Desert. A fine decorative example with wide clean margins. From Jaillot's monumental atlas.
Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (ca. 1632-1712) was one of the most important French cartographers of the seventeenth century. Jaillot traveled to Paris with his brother, Simon, in 1657, hoping to take advantage of Louis XIV's call to the artists and scientists of France to settle and work in Paris. Originally a sculptor, he married the daughter of Nicholas Berey, Jeanne Berey, in 1664, and went into partnership with Nicholas Sanson's sons. Beginning in 1669, he re-engraved and often enlarged many of Sanson's maps, filling in the gap left by the destruction of the Blaeu's printing establishment in 1672.
