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Exceptional Publisher's Color Example
Fine old color example of Alexis Hubert Jaillot's fine large map of the Rhine Region from the Strassbourg area to Cleve and Duisburg.
The map includes Cologne, Bonn, Coblentz, Mainz, Worms, Manheim, Nuremberg, Strassbourg and Baden. Frankfurt on the Main Riover is also shown.
Includes 4 decorative coats of arms in the title.
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.