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Description

Rare Dutch Edition

Important early map of Florida and the Southeast, illustrating a number of early and important cartographic features.

The present map is the third D'Winter edition of Sanson's important map of the Southeastern United States, published in Amsterdam in 1705, following editions published in Paris and Utrecht.

The projection of the Southeast is improved over Sanson's folio map of 1657. The Florida nomenclature is corrected from Sanson's North America. Most of the rest of the map is Chaves/Ortelius nomenclature. The Southwest is still largely unknown. The first edition of the map was the first map to appear in an atlas which correctly name Lake Erie, although it is pushed 2.5 degrees too far south, increasing the claims of France. Several new rivers appear in Virginia. The Caroline depicted on the map is Ft. Caroline, not the Carolinas.

This is the Amsterdam edition of the map, the only edition to include the title in Dutch. This edition can by identified by the title and the following changes noted in the map: (1) a graticule has been added across the face of the map; (2) 'Lac Grande' is named in Floride Francoise; (3) the boundaries between Canada and Floride, and between Nouveau Mexique and Floride are now shown by a double line; (4) within the map additional mountains and trees are added; (5) the title cartouche has been re-worked slightly; and (6) the lower face now has eyes.

This edition is rare on the market, this being the second time we have offered this edition of the map in more than 20 years.

Condition Description
Minor soiling and foxing, mostly in outer margins.
Reference
Burden 326, Cumming 139.
Nicolas Sanson Biography

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.