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Nicholas de Fer (1646-1720) was the son of a map seller, Antoine de Fer, and grew to be one of the most well-known mapmakers in France in the seventeenth century. He was apprenticed at twelve years old to Louis Spirinx, an engraver. When his father died in 1673, Nicholas helped his mother run the business until 1687, when he became the sole proprietor.

His earliest known work is a map of the Canal of Languedoc in 1669, while some of his earliest engravings are in the revised edition of Methode pour Apprendre Facilement la Geographie (1685). In 1697, he published his first world atlas. Perhaps his most famous map is his wall map of America, published in 1698, with its celebrated beaver scene (engraved by Hendrick van Loon, designed by Nicolas Guerard). After his death in 1720, the business passed to his sons-in-law, Guillaume Danet and Jacques-Francois Benard. 

Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
18.5 x 18.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
102999
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
93182
Place/Date:
Paris / 1683
Size:
7 x 12 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
101316
Place/Date:
Paris / 1689
Size:
11.7 x 7.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
100722
Place/Date:
Paris / 1695 circa
Size:
27 x 17.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
61722op
Place/Date:
Paris / 1700
Size:
12.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
90140
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13 x 10 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
81967
Place/Date:
Paris / 1703
Size:
12.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
86549
Place/Date:
Paris / 1694
Size:
43.5 x 31.3 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
73331
Place/Date:
Paris / 1710
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
69697
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
18.5 x 18 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
80256
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705 circa
Size:
23 x 17.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
28131
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
12 x 14.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
62832
Place/Date:
Paris / 1754
Size:
6 x 8.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
65764
Place/Date:
Paris / 1716
Size:
13 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
31269

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Place/Date:
Paris / 1683
Size:
7.1 x 11.6 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
101017
Place/Date:
Paris / 1689 circa
Size:
11.7 x 7.3 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
101329
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13.25 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
98442
Place/Date:
Paris / 1717
Size:
13 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
93711
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
72940
Place/Date:
Paris / 1711
Size:
24 x 18 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
91366
Place/Date:
Paris / 1717
Size:
13 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
91078
Place/Date:
Paris / 1700
Size:
13 x 9 inches
Condition:
Good
Stock#:
88799
Place/Date:
Paris / 1730
Size:
43 x 31 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
81912
Place/Date:
Paris / 1707
Size:
23 x 17.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
57017
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
10.5 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
79669
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
11 x 8.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
79670
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
11 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
79672
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
11 x 8.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
79668
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
80299
Place/Date:
Paris / 1706
Size:
18 x 24 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
27499
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
12.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
76469
Place/Date:
Paris / 1713
Size:
29.5 x 21 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
45194