UPPER RHINE REGION GERMANY 1691 JAILLOT VERY LARGE ANTIQUE ENGRAVED CHART

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Double your traffic. La Basse Partie du Cercle du Haut Rhein divisé en tous ses Estats et Souverainetés, dressé sur les Memoires les plus Nouveaux. Par le Sr. Sanson Geographe du Roy. A Paris Chez H. Jaillot, joionant les grands Augustins, aux deus Globes Avec Privilege de la Majesté pour 20 ans . Description: Stricking and hightly very large detailed copper engraved map of the upper Rhine region with a decorative title and scale cartouche. Including the area east of Cologne, Koblenz, etc. Centered on Hirzfeld. Map is filled with a lot of topographical detais as well as cities, villages, roads, rivers. Map in flanked with a large decorative title cartouche and a decorative scale of miles cartouche. Alternative french title to the top "La Basse Partie du Cercle de Haut Rhein ...". Date: 1691 ( dated ) Source: Alexis Hubert Jaillot Atlas Nouveau Contenant Toutes les Parties du Monde, ou Sont exactement Remarques Les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Estats Amsterdam 1694. Dimension: P aper size approx.: cm 92,4 x 60,8 Condition: Very strong a nd dark impression on very strong paper. Uncolored as issued. Small margin to the top. Wide margins, partially missed. Paper with foxing. Map folded as issued. Tears affecting the map and renforced on the verso. Map heavy washed and restored. Conditions are as you can see in the image. Cartographer: Alexis Hubert Jaillot (c. 1632- 1712) followed Nicholas Sanson (1600 - 1667) and his descendents 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's 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 of a generation of 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. 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 Ordinaire du Roi". Sanson's duties in this coved position included advising the King on matters of Geography and compiling the royal cartographic archive. Sanson's corpus of some three hundred maps initiated the golden age of French Cartography. He 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) and La Canada ou Nouvelle France (1656) are exceptionally notable for thei... read more

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