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Description

Decorative two sheet map of Switzerland, from Jaillot's Atlas Nouveau. The map is flanked at each side by a total of 24 coats of arms of the Swiss cantons, principal cities, and allies and, in a panel below a further nine arms of "Sujets Des Suisses". Coats of arms also appear on this detailed map, done on a very large-scale, and with strongly engraved hachuring giving clear indication of the mountainous nature of the Alpine regions. A gorgeous old color example. A bit of waterstaining along the bottom of the map, which occasionally enters into the printed image, most notably right at the centerfold, and one repaired marginal tear, just entering the printed image.

Alexis-Hubert Jaillot Biography

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.