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Stock# 92654
Description
Finely detailed map of the Saxony and Brandenberg regions. The cities of Berlin, Dresden, Mansfield and Bamberg are prominently shown.
Condition Description
Original outline hand-color. Dampstain across the top edge.
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.
