COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Date:
1652
Short Title:
Description des isles du Iapon en
Publisher:
N. Sanson
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
18
Obj Width cm:
27
Scale 1:
6,900,000
Note:
Copper engraved double page map, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche. Showing boundaries, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Reference:
Pastoreau Sanson IA, IIA, IIIA, VIIA; Phillips 494.
Country:
Japan
Full Title:
Description Des Isles Du Iapon En sept principales Parties et la ou ont este autrefois : Soixante et six Royaume : Tiree en partie du R.P. Cardin en partie de Varenius et d'autres. Parle Sr Sanson d'Abbeville, G. d. R. (to accompany) L'Asie en plvsievrs cartes novvelles, et exactes ... . A Paris, Chez l'Autheur ...
List No:
11574.071
Series No:
71
Engraver or Printer:
Peyrounin, Abraham
Publication Author:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Pub Date:
1652
Pub Title:
L'Asie en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes; & en divers traittes de geographie, et d'histoire. La ou sont descripts succinctement, & avec une belle methode, & facile ses empires, ses monarchies, ses estats, &c. les moeurs, les langues, les religions, les richesses de ses peuples, &c. Et ce qu'il y a de plus beau, & de plus rare dans toutes ses parties, & dans ses isles. Par N. Sanson d' Abbeville, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. A Paris, Chez l'Autheur, dans le cloistre de Sainct Germain l'Auxerrois, joignant la grande porte du cloistre. Avec privilege pour vingt Ans.
Pub Reference:
Pastoreau Sanson IA, IIA, IIIA, VIIA; Phillips 494.
Pub Note:
Atlas of Asia, dedicated to Nicolas Fouquet, 104 pages of explanatory text and 17 folded maps of various Empires, Kingdoms, States, Republics and Islands. Maps based on Jesuit missionary sources, copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouches, some engraved by A. Peyrounin. Showing major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. This is the second volume of the first edition of Sanson's quarto Atlas, a geographical description of the four continents of the world in four separate volumes, L'Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amerique, each with engraved title page, accompanied by text and folded maps, bound in full brown calf with rich gold decoration and gold title on spine. Published over the period 1648 to 1657, these are the first atlases published by Sanson, a noted French historian and cartographer, the geographer to the French king. Most of the maps were engraved especially for these works and are not reductions of larger previously published maps.
Pub List No:
11574.000
Pub Type:
Regional Atlas
Pub Maps:
17
Pub Height cm:
26
Pub Width cm:
19
Image No:
11574071.jp2
Authors:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
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Description des isles du Iapon en
