UTRECHT ZUTPHEN VELUWE NETHERLANDS 1702 SANSON & JAILLOT UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP

 La Veluwe La Betuwe et Le Comté de Zutphē dans Le Duché de Gueldre tiré de plusieurs Memoires les pl.s recents Par le Sr. Sanson, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy A Paris chez H. Iaillot, joignant les grands Augustins, aux deux Globes Avec Privilege du Roy 1702.

Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1702 Alexis Hubert Jaillot's edition of the Nicolas Sanson's copper engraved map of the east Netherlands south of Zyder Zee. The map outlines in color the towns and municipalities of Utrecht, Veluwe, Zutphen, Neder-Betuwe, etc., and shows relief pictorially.  Features lakes, forests, trees, mountains, waterways, and pathways throughout the region.  The map also notes forts, windmills, dams, etc.
 
Includes an ornately engraved title cartouche, scale of miles and a compass rose.

Date: 1702 ( dated )

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 57,9 x 44,2
 
Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Map old original colored. All the margins cut very shortly. Small foxing and browning. Small tears. Small warmings. Minor loosing of the map at the lower side. Small waterstains. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. 

Mapmakers: Nicolas Sanson (1600 - 1667) and his descendants were the most influential French cartographers of the 17th century and laid the groundwork for the Golden Age of French Cartography. Sanson started his career as a historian where, it is said, he turned to cartography as a way to illustrate his historical studies. In the course of his research some of his fine maps came to the attention of King Louis XIII who, admiring the quality of his work, appointed Sanson Geographe Ordinaire du Roi. Sanson's duties in this coveted position included advising the king on matters of geography and compiling the royal cartographic archive. In 1644 he partnered with Pierre Mariette, an established print dealer and engraver, whose business savvy and ready capital enabled Sanson to publish an enormous quantity of maps. Sanson's corpus of some three hundred maps initiated the golden age of French mapmaking and he is considered the 'Father of French Cartography.' His work is distinguished as being the first of the 'Positivist Cartographers,' a primarily French school of cartography that valued scientific observation over historical cartographic conventions. The practice result of the is less embellishment of geographical imagery, as was common in the Dutch Golden Age maps of the 16th century, in favor of conventionalized cartographic representational modes. Sanson is most admired for his construction of the magnificent atlas Cartes Generales de Toutes les Parties du Monde. Sanson's maps of North America, Amerique Septentrionale (1650), Le Nouveau Mexique et La Floride (1656), and La Canada ou Nouvelle France (1656) are exceptionally notable for their important contributions to the cartographic perceptions of the New World. Both maps utilize the discoveries of important French missionaries and are among the first published maps to show the Great Lakes in recognizable form. Sanson was also an active proponent of the insular California theory, wherein it was speculated that California was an island rather than a peninsula. After his death, Sanson's maps were frequently republished, without updates, by his sons, Guillaume (1633 - 1703) and Adrien Sanson (? - 1708). Even so, Sanson's true cartographic legacy as a 'positivist geographer' was carried on by others, including Alexis-Hubert Jaillot, Guillaume De L'Isle, Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, and Pierre Duval.

Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (ca. 1632-1712) was one of the most important French cartographers of the seventeenth century. Jaillot traveled to Paris with his brother, Simon, in 1657, hoping to take advantage of Louis XIV's call to the artists and scientists of France to settle and work in Paris. Originally a sculptor, he married the daughter of Nicholas Berey, Jeanne Berey, in 1664, and went into partnership with Nicholas Sanson's sons. Beginning in 1669, he re-engraved and often enlarged many of Sanson's maps, filling in the gap left by the destruction of the Blaeu's printing establishment in 1672.