This very large, beautifully
hand coloured original 1st edition antique map of
English Channel - or La Manche as it is known in French
- by
Alexis Hubert Jaillot,
after
Nicolas Sanson - was engraved in 1692 - the date is
engraved in the title - and was published in the 1693
edition of
Le Neptune Francois.
A beautiful scarce sea chart showing the English
Channel, with the coastline of France from La Baie de
Douarnenez to Dunkerque, and the coastline of England
from Stroble head to Manning Tree.
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
Colors used: - Yellow, green, red, brown.
General color appearance: - Authentic and fresh
Paper size: - 38in x 25in (960m x 635mm)
Plate size: - 32 1/2in x 23 1/2in (825mm x 5955mm)
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)
Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None
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