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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.

Tryk van Persien

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1683 circa

Size:

9.5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

93518

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1683

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

93706

[ World Atlas ] L'Europe en Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles et Exactes [bound with] L'Asie en Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles et Exactes [and] L'Afrique en Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles et Exactses [and] L'Amerique en Plusieurs Nouvelles et Exactes

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris (but Utrecht) / 1683

Size:

6.5 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

95822

[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

[ El Dorado! ] Guiana in Guianam & Caribanam divisa. Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

10.75 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97909

Chili, ad mentem Alphi de Ovalle, e civitate Imperiali Oriundus. Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Nuremberg / 1679

Size:

7.5 x 10.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97911

[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#:

98170

Le Canada ou Nouvelle France &c. Ce qui set les plus advance vers le Septenrion est tier de dives Relations des Anglois, Danois &c. . . . 1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

99318

Americque Septentrionale Par N.Sanson . . . (California as an Island)

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1683

Size:

6.5 x 6 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

99687

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

(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

Germano-Sarmatia in qua populi maiores Venedi et Aestiaei, Peucini et Bastarnae in minores populos divisi ad hodiernam locorum et regionum positionem respondent... 1655

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1655

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

102577

Royaume de Danemarq . . . 1658

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1658

Size:

20.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102581

Estats De La Couronne De Pologne ou sont les Royaume de Pologne, Duches et Provinces De Prusse, Cuiave, Mazovie, Russie Noire &c. Duches De Lithuanie, Volynie Podolie &c. De L'Ukraine &c . . . 1655

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1655

Size:

23 x 17 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102582

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

La Floride . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1682 circa

Size:

10 x 7 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102735

[ Scotland ] L'Escosse Royaume en ses deux Princpales Parties . . . 1665

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1665

Size:

20.25 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102859

[ Scotland ] L'Escosse dela le Tay . . . | L'Escosse deca le Tay

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1740 -1741

Size:

21.5 x 16 inches (each sheet)

Condition:

Stock#:

102860

Canada, sive Nova Francia &c.

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

12 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97902

Audienca de Mexico Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

10.75 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97904

America Meridionalis Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Nuremberg / 1679

Size:

10.75 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97907

[ Colombia & Venezuela ] Terra Firma & Nova Granada &c. Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

11.5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97908

[ Brazil ] Brasilia Lusitanorum in XIV praefecturas divis. Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Nuremberg / 1679

Size:

10.75 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97912

Paraguay in partes suas praecipuas divisum. Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurth / 1679

Size:

10.75 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97913

Fretum Magellanicum cum terris & Insulis adjacentibus

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

97914

(Country of the Negroes) Africa, sive Lybia Ulterior ubi sunt Desertum Saaia Nigritarum Regio & Guinea

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1676

Size:

11.5 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

99994

'T Koninkryk van Congo

Francois Halma / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1705

Size:

10.5 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

95653

Die gantze Erd-Kugel / Bestehend Inden vier befannten Theilen der Welt / Als Europa, Asia, Africa und America Sampt schoenen neuen unde accuraten Land=Karten . . . .

Nicolas Sanson / Joannes Zunners

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

7.5 x 9.8 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

94391

Champaigne et Brie etc.

Nicolas Sanson / Nicolaes Visscher II

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1698 circa

Size:

20 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

76378

[ 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

Asia Vetus . . . 1650

Pierre Mariette / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102555

Archived

Amerique Meridionale

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

8616

Les Isles Antilles entre les quelles sont Les Lucayes et Les Caribes…

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

8617

La Terre et Les Isles Magenllanciques… 1668

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1668

Size:

19.5 x 14 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

8731

Les Deux Poles Arcticque ou Septentrional , et Antarcticque ou Meridional, ou Description des Terres. . . . 1679

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1679

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

8921

Le Canada ou Nouvelle France &c. Tiree de diverses Relations des Francois, Anglois, Hollandois &c. . . . 1657

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

12 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

9466

Les Isles Antilles entre les quelles sont Les Lucayes et Les Caribes…

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

22 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

16409

Estats De L'Empire Du Grande Seigneur Des Turqs ou Sultan des Ottomans En Asie, en Afrique et en Europe . . . 1654

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1654

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

16518

L'Inde deca et dela le Gange, ou est L'Empire du Grand Mogol Et Pays Circonvoisins Tiree de Purchas . . . 1654

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1654

Size:

21.25 x 13.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

17233

Amerique Septentrionale . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21.5 x 15.25 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

17273

L'Afrique, ou Lybie Ulterieure ou font Le Saara, ou Desert, Le Pays Des Negres, La Guinee, et Pays circonv. Tiree en partie de Sanut, et de l'Arabe de Nubie, en partie de diveres Cartes veues . . . est apres les Observations de Samuel Blomart . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1655

Size:

21.5 x 13.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

17397

Amerique Septentrionale . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21.5 x 15.25 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

17782

Le Nouveau Mexique et La Floride: Tirees de diverses Cartes, et Relations . . . 1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

21.5 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

18140

Amerique Septentrionale par N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geog. du Roy . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21.5 x 15.25 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

18142

Harmonie ou Correspondance du Globe avecq la Sphere par les Points, Lignes, Cercles &c. qui se Descrivent en la Surface des Globes Terrestres . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1659 (1703)

Size:

21.5 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

18641

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c….

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1683

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

18025EG

Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale Du Monde; Dessignee en deux plan-Hemispheres par le Sr. Sanson d'Abbeville, Geographe Ordinaire de la Majeste . . . 1651

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1651

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

18013EG

Estats De L'Empire Du Grande Seigneur Des Turqs ou Sultan des Ottomans En Asie, en Afrique et en Europe . . . 1654

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1654

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

18878

La Floride . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1682

Size:

10 x 7 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

19330

Les Isles Antilles entre les quelles sont Les Lucayes et Les Caribes…

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

19896

Les Estats De L'Empire Des Turqs En Asie . . . [shows Cyprus]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

20 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

21157

Hispaniae Antiquae Tabula . . . 1704

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1704

Size:

20 x 15 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

21420

Amerique Septentrionale par N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geog. du Roy . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21.5 x 15.25 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22457

Orbis Vetus, et Orbis Veteris, utraque Continens, Terrarumq Tractus Arcticus, et Antarcticus ex Platone, Theopompo sive Aehano, Manilio . . . MDCLVII

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

21 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

22458

Afrique . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22532

Partie De Lithuanie ou sont les Palatinats de Wilna et Troki, subdvises en leurs Chastellenies. et Parti du Palat.at de Minsk. . . . 1665

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1665

Size:

19.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22546

Partie De Lithuanie ou est le Palatinat de Nowogrodeck Litawiski, subdvise en ses Chastellenies. le Palatinat de Bressici en Polesie Avec les Duches de Neswies, et Slusck, et Partie du Palatinat de . . 1665

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1665

Size:

19.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22589

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

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1659

Size:

21 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22592

La Prusse Duche divisee en Royale et Ducale La Royale … 1659

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1659

Size:

21 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22616

Haute Volhynie, ou Palatinat de Lusuc; tire de la Grande Carte D'Ukrain, du Sr. le Vasseur de Beauplan . . . 1665

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1665

Size:

21 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22617

Tartarie Europeenne ou Petite Tartari ou sont Les Tartares, Du Crim, ou de Perecop; De Nogais, D'Oczacow, et de Budziak . . .1665

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1665

Size:

21 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22572

Le Nouveau Mexique et La Floride: Tirees de diverses Cartes, et Relations . . . 1679 [with manuscript annotation noting late Sanson address!

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1679

Size:

21.5 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22772

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#:

22862

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

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:

Stock#:

23016

Afrique . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

23078

Orbis Vetus, et Orbis Veteris, utraque Continens, Terrarumq Tractus Arcticus, et Antarcticus ex Platone, Theopompo sive Aehano, Manilio . . . MDCLVII

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1679

Size:

21 x 15 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

0083em

Amerique Meridionale . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

19.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

1042hh

Destroit De Magellan, Terre et Isles Magellaniques, &c . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1662

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

0068em

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#:

24189

Description De La Tartarie tiree en partie de plusiurs Cartes, qui en ont este faictes en parte diverses Relations et de divers Autheurs Arabes . . . 1654 [Korea as an Island]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1654

Size:

22 x 14 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

24246

Romani Imperii qua Oriens est Descriptio Geographica . . . 1657

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

21 x 17 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1001hh

Royaume D'Arragon divise en sept Dioeceses et en . . . 1663

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1663

Size:

16.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

24440

Gouvernement De Berghenhus Subdivise en ses principales parties . . . 1668

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

22.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1004hh

Estats De L'Empire Du Grande Seigneur Des Turqs ou Sultan des Ottomans En Asie, en Afrique et en Europe . . . 1654

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1654

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1005hh

Grece Moderne ou Partie Meridionale De La Turquie En L'Europe . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

20 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

24455

Romani Imperii qua Oriens est Descriptio Geographica . . . 1657

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

21 x 17 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

24459

Amerique Septentrionale . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21.5 x 15.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

1008hh

Le Nouveau Mexique et La Floride: Tirees de diverses Cartes, et Relations . . . 1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

21.5 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1009hh

Calabre Citerieure et Ulterieure le Far de Messine &c. . . . 1648 (with a large part of Sicily)

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1007hh

Provinces Unies Des Pays Bas . . . 1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1010hh