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Antique maps by Nicolas Sanson

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.

[ Arabia ] Carte Des Trois Arabies Tiree en Partie de l'Arabe de Nubie, en partie de divers autres Autheurs . . . 1654

Pierre Mariette - Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1654

Size:

19 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

99810

Les Estats de la Couronne d'Arragon en Espagne ou sont l'Arragon Royaume, la Catalogne Princip[au]té, la Valence Royaume, et les Isles de Maiorque... 1653

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1653

Size:

21.5 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80239

L'Hydrographie ou Descriprion de L'Eau c'est a dire des Mers, Golfes, Lacs, Destroits, et Rivieres principales, qui font dans la Surface du Globe Terrestre

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1652

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

64423

La Beauce ou sont les Eslections de Chartres, Dourdan, Estampes Pluviers, Chasteau-Dun, et Pays Circovoisins

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1652

Size:

22.5 x 16.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85777

Royaume De Navarre Disvise en Six Merindades . . . 1652

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1652

Size:

16.25 x 21 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

93092

(Paris Region) Gouvernement General de L'Isle de France et Pays Circomvoisins

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1651

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85044

Gouvernement General De La Picardie, Artois, Boulenois, et Pays Reconquis &c. . . . 1651

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1651

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

85709

Les Estats de L'Empire des Turqs en Asie . . . . [Includes Cyprus]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650 circa

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

50415

Amerique Meridionale . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80081

(Ile-de-France) Diocese, Prevoste, et Eslection de Paris Le Diocese est divise en Archipbres, ou Doyennes Ruraux, La Prevoste en Balliages, ou Prevostes Subalternes Et l"Elsection en Chatellenies . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650 circa

Size:

21.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

80977

(Auvergne) Gouvernement General du Lyonnois Suivant les derniers Estats Generaux. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650 circa

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

84321

Asia Vetus . . . 1650

Pierre Mariette / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102555

Asie . . . 1650 [with unusual depiction of the West Coast of North America and the Island of Corey]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102556

Africa Vetus . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102557

Afrique . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102558

Amerique Septentrionale . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

102559

[ Julius Caesar's Gaul ] Gallia vetus ex C. Julii Caesaris commentariis descripta, ex conatibus... 1649

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1649

Size:

15 x 19 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102569

Palatinat du Rhein, Alsace, et Partie de Souabe, de Franconie, et. . . .1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

17.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50446

Basse Lombardie ou sont les estats de Venise... 1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

22.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50474

Calabre citérieure et ultérieure... 1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

16 x 22 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

50477

Estats de l'église et de Toscane . . . 1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

22 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

64133

(Aachen, Dusseldorf, Cologne) Estats de la succession de Cleves et Iuliers, archeveschés et eslectorats de Mayence, Treves et Cologne, la Hesse, la Wetteravie et partie de Franconie, de Westphalie... 1648.

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

21.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80881

Picardie et les Pays Bas Catholiques…1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

21 x 15 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80900

Provinces Unies des Pays Bas. Par N. Sanson d'Abbeville... 1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

16 x 20 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80926

Les suisses, les alliés des suisses et leurs sujets... 1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

21 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

81338

[Upper Lombardy and Surrounding Countries, where are the States of Savoy, Piedmont, Milan, Genoa, Montferrat, etc. . . 1648] Haute Lombardie et Pays circomvoisins, ou sont les Estats de Savoye Piemont, Milan.Genes, Monferrat, &c

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

22 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

96129

(Switzerland) Les Suisses les Allies des Suisses et leurs Suiets; qui peuvent passer Sous le mon de Suisses. Partie de Souabe,&c…1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

22 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

102575

Estats du Czar ou Grand duc de la Russie Blanche ou Moscovie

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

19.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

102583

Germania antiqua... 1641

Melchior Tavernier / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1641

Size:

21 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50506

Britannicae insulae, in quibus Albium..., Iverni... tum et Orcades, Ebudes, Cassiterides... 1641

Melchior Tavernier / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1641

Size:

20 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

62165

Carte des rivières de la France, curieusement recherchée par Nicolas Sanson... 1641

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1641

Size:

20 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

63074

Carte Generale D'Espagne et de tous les Royaumes . . . 1658

Melchior Tavernier / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1641

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80119

Hispaniae Antiquae Tabulae . . . 1641

Melchior Tavernier / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1641

Size:

16 x 20 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102567

Galliae Antiquae descriptio geographica... 1641

Melchior Tavernier / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1641

Size:

16 x 21 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102570

Romani Imperii qua Oriens est Descriptio Geographica . . . 1637

Melchior Tavernier / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1637

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

102562

Archived

Le Nouveau Mexique et La Floride: Tirees de diverses Cartes, et Relations . . . 1679

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1679

Size:

21.5 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

40682

Audienca De Guadalajara, Nova Mexico, California, &c . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

47824

Audienca De Guadalajara, Nova Mexico, California, &c . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

9.5 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

59345

Florida Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679 circa

Size:

10 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

64184

Les deux poles arctique ou septentrional, et Antarctique ou meridional, ou description des terres arctiques et antarctiques, et des pays circomvoisins jusques aux 45 degres de latitude . . . 1679

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1679

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

64209

America Septentrionalis (California as an Island -- First Edition!)

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

9.5 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

64291

Canada, sive Nova Francia &c.

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

12 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

64329

La Curlande Duche et Semigalle autresois de la Livonie / La Samogitie Duche en Lithuanie. . . . 1679

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1679

Size:

21 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

75981

Les Postes qui Traversent La France Corigees et Aumentees suivant les derniers Establissements . . . 1676

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1679

Size:

21 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

76974

Partie Septentrionale du Royme de Hongrie tirée de divers Autheurs.

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1679

Size:

23 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

77024

Churfurstenthum, und March Brandeburg. Eslectorat et marqsat de Brandebourg divisé en ses principles marches et parties & c... 1679

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1679

Size:

20 x 12 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80580

Insulae Americanae

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Paris / 1679

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97901

Florida Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

10 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

97903

Audienca De Guadalajara, Nova Mexico, California, &c . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

9.5 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97905

Audience De Guatimala…

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Nuremberg / 1679

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97906

Peru & Amazonum Fluvy cursus. Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Nuremberg / 1679

Size:

11 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97910

Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale Du Globe Terrestre Representee en deux Plan-Hemispheres Reveue et changee endroits Suivant les Relations les plus recentes . . . 1678

Pierre Mariette - Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1678

Size:

22.5 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

36487

Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale Du Globe Terrestre Representee en deux Plan-Hemispheres Reveue et changee endroits Suivant les Relations les plus recentes . . . 1678

Pierre Mariette - Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1678

Size:

22.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

89603

La Russie Noire ou Polonoise qui Comprend les Provinces de la Russie Noire de Volhynie et de Polodie divisees en leurs Palatinats Vulgairement Connues sous le Nom D'Ukraine ou Pays Des Cosaques . . . 1674

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1674

Size:

22 x 17.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1021hh

Partie Septentrionale de la Turquie ou sont Les Beglebegliczou Gouvernements De Bude, De Temeswar, De Bosnie, et Partie de celuy de Romelie . . . ou sot encor les Principautes de Transilvanie, Moldavie et Valaquie Tributaires de Turcqs . . . 1670

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1670

Size:

21 x 14 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

26913

Novus Orbis potius Altera Continens Atlantis Insula a Nicaloa Sanson Antiquitati Restituta . . . 1741 (America as the lost continent of Atlantis!)

Nicolas Sanson / Tipografia del Seminario

Place/Date:

Padua / 1670 circa (1741)

Size:

22 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

41120jc

[Rare Atlas of Asia with 3 rare Jesuit maps of China] L'Asie, en plusieurs cartes nouvelles et exactes . . .

Pierre Mariette & Nicolas Sanson & Sanson fils

Place/Date:

Paris / 1670 circa

Size:

8 x 5.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

52605

Abbrege De La Carte De La Chine du R.P. Bouyn Iesuiste . . . [Rare Atlas of Asia with 3 rare maps of China] L'Asie, en plusieurs cartes nouvelles et exactes . . .

Pierre Mariette & Nicolas Sanson & Sanson fils

Place/Date:

Paris / 1670 circa

Size:

10 x 7 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

52605a

Abbrege De La Carte De La Chine du R.P. Martinius Iesuiste . . . [Rare Atlas of Asia with 3 rare maps of China] L'Asie, en plusieurs cartes nouvelles et exactes . . .

Pierre Mariette & Nicolas Sanson & Sanson fils

Place/Date:

Paris / 1670 circa

Size:

10 x 7 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

52605b

Abbrege De La Carte De La Chine du R.P. Michel Ruggiery Iesuiste . . . [Rare Atlas of Asia with 3 rare maps of China] L'Asie, en plusieurs cartes nouvelles et exactes . . .

Pierre Mariette & Nicolas Sanson & Sanson fils

Place/Date:

Paris / 1670 circa

Size:

10 x 7 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

52605c

Partie Meridionale de la Turquie en Europe . . . 1670

Pierre Mariette / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1670

Size:

21.25 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

77204

[Kingdom of Crete, Santorini, etc.] Isle et Royaume de Candie, tiree de divers Memoires . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1670 circa

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

77310

Novus Orbis potius Altera Continens Atlantis Insula a Nicaloa Sanson Antiquitati Restituta . . . 1741 (America as the lost continent of Atlantis!)

Nicolas Sanson / Tipografia del Seminario

Place/Date:

Padua / 1670 (1741)

Size:

22 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102659

Le Chili Divise en ses Treize Iurisdictions Tire du R.P. Also de Oualle…1669

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669

Size:

17.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

7569

Estats De La Couronne De Suede dans la Scandinavie, ou sont Suede, Gotland, Lappoinie, Suedoise, Finlande, Ingrie, et LIvonie . . . 1668

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669

Size:

19.5 x 17.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1023hh

L'Asie . . . 1669

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669

Size:

22.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

35882

L'Afrique . . . 1669

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669

Size:

22.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

35894

Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale Du Globe Terrestre Representee en deux Plan-Hemispheres Reveue et changee endroits Suivant les Relations les plus recentes . . . 1669

Pierre Mariette - Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669

Size:

22.5 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

42906

Atlantis Insula (Unrecorded State)

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669 (1699)

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

52562

Atlantis Insula

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669 (1677 circa)

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

59827

L'Afrique . . . 1669

Guillaume Sanson / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

67477

(Northern Bavaria) Cercle de Franconie divise en ses Principaux Estats Ecclesiastiques Laiques et Villes Imperiales . . . 1669

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669

Size:

19.5 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

81023

Estats De La Couronne De Suede dans la Scandinavie, ou sont Suede, Gotland, Lappoinie, Suedoise, Finlande, Ingrie, et LIvonie . . . 1668

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669

Size:

19.5 x 17.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

83441

[Eastern Sweden] Helsinge, Medelpadie, Angermannie, Iemptie, Dalecarlie, et Partie de LaLappoine Suedoise, et de la Bothnie Occidle. Tiree de celles d'Andr. Burae et de Isaac Maasa

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669

Size:

23 x 17.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

86724

Le Paraguay Tire des Relations les plus Recentes. … 1668

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1668

Size:

21.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

7501

La Terre et Les Isles Magenllanciques… 1668

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1668

Size:

19.5 x 14 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

8731

Les Suisses les Allies des Suisses et leurs Suiets; qui peuvent passer Sous le mon de Suisses. Partie de Souabe,&c…1667

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1667

Size:

22 x 15 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22976

Brasil, waar van de Kustdoor de Portugeezen bezeten, en in veertigien Hoostgebieden verdeelt word . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1667

Size:

10.5 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

60978

[El Dorado!] Guiane divisee en Guiane, et Caribane . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1667

Size:

11 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

60998

Chili, Getrokken uit Alfonso de Oualle, Jesuit, en in dertien Rechts-gebieden verdeelt . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1667

Size:

7.5 x 10.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

61013

Chili, Getrokken uit Alfonso de Oualle, Jesuit, en in dertien Rechts-gebieden verdeelt . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1667

Size:

7.5 x 10.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

76497

(World Atlas) Cartes Générales de toutes les parties du monde ou les Empires, Monarchies, Republiques, Estats, Peuples, &c. [General Maps of all parts of the world, including Empires, Monarchies, Republics, States, Peoples, etc.]

Nicolas Sanson / Pierre Mariette

Place/Date:

Paris / 1667 [but c. 1657]

Size:

13 x 17.75 inches Size of book

Condition:

Stock#:

94388

Sueonie ou Suede, ou sont les Provinces de Uplande, Sudermannie, Westmannie Noricie, Dalecarlie, Gestricie et les Isles d'Aland . . . 1666

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1666

Size:

23 x 17 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1018hh

Haute, ou Petite Pologne; ou sont les Palatinats de Cracow, Sandomirie, et Lublin . . . 1666

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1666

Size:

21 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1038hh

Illyricum Orientis In quo Partes, II Moesia, et Thracia Provinciae XI

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Padova / 1666

Size:

20.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

26816