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Description

Exceptional Publisher's Color Example

Fine old color example of Alexis Hubert Jaillot's fine large map of the Swabia Region.

Lake Constance is shown at the bottom center, with the Upper Rhine River in the West,  

The map begins in the area which is the source of the Danube River, which can be seen winding its way northeast from the center of the map and reaching to Regensburg and Ingolstadt.

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.