This large beautifully
hand coloured, original antique map of the British Isles by
Alexis Hubert Jaillot
was engraved in 1696 - the date is
engraved in the scale cartouche - and was published in
Paris.
This is a
beautiful, fantastic colour, sturdy and heavy paper and a
deep clear impression, signifying an early pressing.
After
Nicolas Sanson, Hubert Jaillot and Pierre Duval were the
most important French cartographers of the seventeenth
centuries. Jaillot, originally a sculptor, became interested
in geography after his marriage to the daughter of Nicolas
Berey (1606-65), a famous map colourist, and went into
partnership in Paris with Sanson's sons. There, from about
1669, he undertook the re-engraving, enlarging and
re-publishing of the Sanson maps in sheet form and in
atlases, sparing no effort to fill the gap in the map
trade left by the destruction of Blaeu's printing
establishment in Amsterdam in 1672. Many of his maps were
printed in Amsterdam (by Pierre Mortier) as well as in
Paris. One of his most important works was a magnificent
sea atlas, Le Neptune François, published in 1693 and
compiled in co-operation with J D Cassini. This was
re-published shortly afterwards by Pierre Mortier in
Amsterdam with French, Dutch and English texts, the charts
having been re-engraved. Eventually, after half a century,
most of the plates were used again as the basis for a
revised issue published by J N Bellin in 1753.(Ref:
Tooley; M&B)
General Description:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color: - off white
Age of map color: - Original & later
Colors used: - Yellow, green, red, brown.
General color appearance: - Authentic and fresh
Paper size: - 24 1/2in x 20 1/2in (620mm x 520mm)
Plate size: - 24in x 20in (610mm x 510mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)
Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - Very light spotting
Verso: - Centerfold re-enforced
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