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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:
13 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
26376
Place/Date:
Paris / 1701
Size:
13.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
43484
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
31446

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Place/Date:
Paris / 1708
Size:
18.5 x 17 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
56929
Place/Date:
Paris / 1690 circa
Size:
6.5 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
73885
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
73577
Place/Date:
Paris / 1701
Size:
12.5 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
56357
Place/Date:
Paris / 1706 circa
Size:
35 x 23.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
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57384
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Paris / 1684 (1746)
Size:
6 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
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73066
Place/Date:
Paris / 1689 (?)
Size:
6 x 5 inches
Condition:
VG+
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73033
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
70621
Place/Date:
Paris / 1694
Size:
40 x 59 inches
Condition:
Good
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72232
Place/Date:
Paris / 1715
Size:
13 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
61042
Place/Date:
Paris / 1710 circa
Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
51609
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
Good
Stock#:
62812
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
11 x 8 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
48252
Place/Date:
Paris / 1717
Size:
13 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
47663
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
65728
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
27112
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG+
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63724
Place/Date:
Paris / 1700
Size:
13 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
56268
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13.5 x 9 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
21587
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705 (1720 ca)
Size:
18 x 18 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
64218
Place/Date:
Paris / 1707
Size:
23.5 x 17.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
64146
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
12.5 x 14 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
20603
Place/Date:
Paris / 1705
Size:
13 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
VG
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52168