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Stock# 69477
Description

All Maps in Original Outline Hand-Color.

A handsome example of the 1683 Dutch pirated edition of Nicholas Sanson's four continental atlases, of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. These are the books with which Nicholas Sanson started his career as an atlas publisher.

All of the maps in this series have been reengraved by A. de Winter.

This edition was probably published in Utrecht by François Halma who was responsible also for the Utrecht and Amsterdam editions in 1692, 1699, 1700, and 1710. It has also been suggested that Simon Ribbius was the publisher, as he used the plates in another work in 1683.

The fact that the Dutch were producing knockoff Sanson atlases in the latter half of the 17th century speaks to the high regard in which Dutch cartography was held at the time.

L'Europe

1. Europe
2. Isles Britanniques
3. Scandinavie
4. Russie Blanche ou Moscovie
5. France
6. Allemagne
7. Estats de la Couronne de Pologne
8. Espagne
9. Italie
10. Partie de Turquie en Europe
11. Hongrie

L'Asie

12. L'Asie
13. Turquie en Asie
14. Anatolie
15. Mer Noire ou Mer Maievre
16. Sorie, et Diarbeck
17. Tur Comanie Georgie Commanie
18. L'Arabie Petree, Deserte, et Hevrevse
19. L'Empire du Sophy des Perses
20. L'Empire du Grand Mogol
21. Presqu' Isle de L'Indie deca la Gange
22. Presqu' Isle de L'Indie au de la du Gange
23. Royavme de la Chine
24. La Grande Tartarie
25. Les Isles du Japon
26. Les Isles Philippines, Islas de los Ladrones ou Isles des Larrons
27. Les Isles Molucques; Celebes, Gilolo, &c.
28. Les Isles de la Sonde entre lesquelles sont Sumatra, Iava, Borneo, &c.
29. Ceylan, et les Maldives

L'Afrique

30. Afrique
31. Royaume de Maroc
32. Royaume de Fez
33. Parte de Darbarie ou est le Royaume D'Alger divise en Provinces
34. Partie de Barbarie ou sontles Royaume de Tunis et Tripoli
35. Royaume et Desert de Barca, et L'Egypte
36. Partie du Biledulgerid ou sont Tesset, Darha, et Segelmesse
37. Egypte divisee en ses Douze Cassilifs ou Gouvernemens
38. Afrique ou Libie Eulterieure ou sont le Saara our Desert, le pays des Negres La Guinee, &c.
39. La Guinee et pays circomvoisins
40. Partie de la Haute Ethiopie ou sont L'Empire des Abissins et la Nubie &c.
41. Partie du Zanguebar ou sont les costes d'Ajan et d'Abex &c.
42. Royaume  de Congo &c.
43. Pays et coste des Caffres: Empires de Monomotapa, Monoemugi, &c.
44. Isle de Madagascar ou de St. Laurens
45. Isles du CapVerd coste, et pays des Negres
46. Isles Canaries
47. Les Isles de Malte, Goze, &c.

L'Amerique

48. Americque Septentrionale
49. La Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c.
50. La Floride
51. Audience de Mexico
52. Audience de Guadalajara
53. Audience de Guatimala
54. Les Isles Antilles, &c.
55. Amerique Meridionale
56. Terre Ferme, nouveau royme de Grenade, &c.
57. Guiane divisee en Guiane et Caribane
58. Le Perou et le cours de la Rivre Amazone
59. Le Chili
60. Le Bresil
61. Le Paraguay
62. Destroit de Magellan terre et Isles Magellanicques, &c.

Condition Description
Four parts in one volume. Octavo. Contemporary full calf, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second "GEOGRAPH / PAR / SANSON", other compartments tooled in gilt in a floral design (joints starting but holding, small losses at head and foot of spine). Europe: engraved title (small marginal repaired loss), title, dedicatory leaf, 52, [1] pages of text and maps (11 engraved maps with original outline hand-color). Asia: 102, [2] pages, and 18 engraved maps with original outline hand-color. Africa: 98, [1] pages, and 18 engraved maps with original outline hand-color. America: 82, [1], [1, instruction to binder] pages, 15 engraved maps in original outline hand-color.
Reference
Pastoureau Sanson VIIF (Europe); IIIF (Asia); IF (Africa); IIF (America)
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.