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Description

Centered on Berlin

Exceptional old color example of Jaillot's map of the Marquisat of Brandenburg, published by Jaillot in Paris.

The map is centered on Berlin and covers the region around Brandenburg, in northeastern Germany.

Includes and elaborate cartouche and the coat of arms of Brandenburg.

Condition Description
Original color. Minor soiling in the blank margins.
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.