Original Engraved Map Anciens Royaumes De Kent, D'Essex, et De Sussex ou sont Aujourdhuy les Comtés Kent, D'Essex, Middlessex, Et Hartford De Sussex, Et Surrey. Avecq le Pas De Calais, et Partie des Costes du Pays Bas, de Picardie, et Normandie. Sanson's Double page map of the south east England shown with the adjacent coastline of France and Belgium.

Nicholas Sanson

Published by PARIS Chez l?Auteur 1654.

About this Item

Title cartouche to lower right corner. Blank on verso. In good condition. Some light tanning on edges, with a few faint foxing marks. A few small nicks lower margin edge. With original outline hand colouring. Engraved Size 17.5 x 23 inches Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) sometimes called Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville or Sanson d'Abbeville, was the most important French cartographer of the 17th century. Tooley called Sanson "the founder of the French school of cartography." He began making maps in the late 1620s, and in the 1630s he was working with Melchior Tavernier. Later, Sanson worked in concert with the print publisher Pierre Mariette, with whom he published his great atlas: Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (1658). After Sanson's death in 1667, his son Guillaume carried on the business in partnership with Alexis Hubert Jaillot. Guillaume established himself as a very important French mapmaker in his own right.

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• Title: Original Engraved Map Anciens Royaumes De Kent, D'Essex, et De Sussex ou sont Aujourdhuy les Comtés Kent, D'Essex, Middlessex, Et Hartford De Sussex, Et Surrey. Avecq le Pas De Calais, et Partie des Costes du Pays Bas, de Picardie, et Normandie. Sanson's Double page map of the south east England shown with the adjacent coastline of France and Belgium.
• Publisher: PARIS Chez l?Auteur 1654.
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