Comte et Gouvernement De Provence old map France Sanson 1651

Title: Comte, et Gouvernement De Provence Aveq les Pays circonvoisins Cotat. Venaiscin, Princte. D'Orange, Cotat. De Nice &c. 1651.

Old map of the Provence engraved by R. Cordier d'Abbau and taken from atlas Les Cartes Générales de toutes les parties du Monde.
A fine title cartouche complete the map.

Map maker Nicolas Sanson
(1600-1667)
Nicolas Sanson (1600–1667) was a French cartographer. He was born of an old Picardy family of Scottish descent, at Abbeville, on the 20th (or 31st) of December 1600, and was educated by the Jesuits at Amiens.
He was appointed as Ordinary Geographer to the King
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sanson

 Sanson's principal works are:

Galilee antiquae descriptio geographica (1627);
Graeciae antiquae descriptio (1636);
* L'Empire romain (1637);
Britannia, ou recherches de l'antiquité d'Abbeville (1638), in which he seeks to identify Strabo's Britannia with Abbeville;
La France (1644);
Tables méthodiques pour les divisions des Gaules (1644);
L'Angleterre, l'Espagne, l'Italie et l'Allemagne (1644);
* Le Cours du Rhin (1646);
In Pharum Galliae antiquae Philippi L'Abbe disquisitiones (1647-1648);
Remarques sur la carte de l'ancienne Gaule de César (1651);
L'Asie (1652);
Index geographicus (1653);
Les Estats de la Couronne d'Arragon en Espagne (1653);
Geographia sacra (1653);
L'Afrique (1656)
Sanson, Nicolas (1656), Le Canada ou Nouvelle France, &c., Paris: Chez Pierre Mariette. Sanson, Nicolas (1658), Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde, Paris: P. Mariette.
And later editions.

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Size:
Sheet app.: 57.5 x 43 cm 22.5 x 16.75 inches.
Image app.: 46 x 32 cm. 18 x 12.75 inches.
Condition: View overall very good, light marginal soiling. Handwritten page number (32)

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