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Description

Striking double hemishpere map of the World, including the latest discoveries.

Shows California as an island, unknown southern continent and partial New Zealand and Australia. The map also includes the mythical land bridge between Japan and the West Coast of North America, and early Great Lakes projection.

Condition Description
Old Color refreshed. Some soiling along centerfold and toning in the eastern hemisphere. Small areas of restoration in lower cartouche, affecting the area to the right of the word "Presente" in title.
Reference
Shirley 462.
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.