ASIAN CONTINENT 1674 SANSON/JAILLOT VERY LARGE ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP

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Double your traffic. L'Asie Divisée en ses Principales Regions et ou se peuvent voir l'estendue des Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, et Etats, qui partagent presentement l'Asie. Recueilli de divers Memoires, et sur les Relations les pl. Nouvelles. Par le Sr. Sanson, Geographe ordinaire du Roy. Presentée a Monseigneur Le Dauphin Par son tres-humble, tres-obeissant, et tres fidele Serviteur Hubert Iaillot . Description: Striking and hightly detailed oversize copper engraved map of whole Asian Continent. This map covers also Arabian Peninsula, Middle East, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Crimean Peninsula. The island of Hokkaido is attached to the mainland as part of the Yupi peninsula and a huge Terre de Iesso (the name normally associated with Hokkaido) appears to the east. Korea is shown as an elongated peninsula. In the East Indies, New Guinea is divided into Terre de Papous and Nouvelle Guinee . Map gives several details concerning cities, villages, rivers, lakes, mountains. A beautifully engraved, uncolored title cartouche is in the upper right corner . Alternative title to the top "L'Asie Distinguée ses Principales Parties sçavoir la Turquie en Asie, l'Arabia, la Perse, l'Inde, la Cjine, la Tartarie, les Isles du Iapon, des Philippines, des Molucques, de la Sonde, de Ceylan, et des Maldives...". Date: 1674 ( dated ) Dimension: Pa per size approx.: cm 91,8 x 62,4 Condition: Very strong a nd dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Old original colors. Quite margin to the top. Wide lower margin. Wide lateral margins. Small browning and foxing. Small tears. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: Alexis Hubert Jaillot (c. 1632- 1712) followed Nicholas Sanson (1600 - 1667) and his descendants in ushering in the great age of French Cartography in the late 17th and 18th century. The publishing center of the cartographic world gradually transitioned from Amsterdam to Paris following the disastrous inferno that destroyed the preeminent Blaeu firm in 1672. Hubert Jaillot was born in Franche-Comte and trained as a sculptor. When he married the daughter of the enlumineur de ala Reine, Nicholas Berey, he found himself positioned to inherit a lucrative map and print publishing firm. When Nicholas Sanson, the premier French cartographer of the day, died Jaillot negotiated with his heirs to republish much of Sanson's work. Though not a cartographer himself, Jaillot's access to the Sanson plates enabled him to publish numerous maps and atlases with only slight modifications and updates to the originals. As a sculptor and an artist, Jaillot's maps were particularly admired for their elaborate and meaningful allegorical title cartouches and other decorative elements. Jaillot used his allegorical cartouche work to extol the virtues of the Sun King Louis IV, and his military and political triumphs. These earned him the patronage of the French crown who used his maps in the tutoring of the young Dauphin. In 1686 he was awarded the title of Geographe du Roi< and with it significant prestige and the coveted yearly stipend of 600 Livres. Jaillot was one of the last French map makers to acquire this title. Louis XV, after taking the throne, replaced the position with the more prestigious and singular title of Premier Geographe du Roi. Jaillot died in Paris in 1712. His most important work was his 1693 Le Neptune Francois Jalliot was succeed by his son, Bernard Jean Hyacinthe Jaillot (1673-1739), grandson, Bernard Antoine Jaillot (???? – 1749) and the latter's brother-in-law, Jean Baptiste-Michel Renou de Chauvigné-Jaillot (1710-1780). Cartographer: Nicholas Sanson (1600 - 1667) and his descendents were important French cartographer's active through the 17th century. 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 Ord... read more

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