COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Date:
1656
Short Title:
Partie De La Haute Aethiopie ou sont L'Empire des Abissins et la Nubie &c.
Publisher:
N. Sanson
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
30
Obj Width cm:
21
Scale 1:
15,000,000
Note:
Copper engraved double page map of the East Africa, Part of Upper Ethiopia and Nubia, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche. Showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, villages, landmarks, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially.
Reference:
Pastoreau Sanson IA, IIA, IIIA, VIIA; Phillips 494.
Country:
Ethiopia
Country:
Sudan
Region:
Africa, East
Full Title:
Partie De La Haute Aethiopie ou sont L'Empire des Abissins et la Nubie &c. : Tirees de Sanut, de Mercator. Par N. Sanson de'Abbeville Geog. du R. Av. p. po. 20 as. 1656. L'huillier, sculp. (to accompany) L'Afriqve en plusieurs cartes novvelles, et exactes; & en divers traittes de geographie, et d'histoire.
List No:
11575.053
Page No:
XI
Series No:
53
Engraver or Printer:
Peyrounin, Abraham
Engraver or Printer:
L'Huilier, Jan.
Publication Author:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Pub Date:
1656
Pub Title:
L'Afriqve en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes; & en divers traittes de geographie, et d'histoire. La ou sont descripts succinctement, & avec vne belle methode, & facile ses empires, ses monarchies, ses estats, &c. les moevrs, les langves, les religions, les richesses de ses pevples, &c. Et ce qu'il y a de plus beau, & de plus rare dans toutes ses parties, & dans ses isles. Dediee a messire Nicolas Fovcqvet vicomte de Melvn, et de Vavx ... Par N. Sanson d' Abbeville, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. A Paris chez l'Autheur.
Pub Reference:
Pastoreau Sanson IA, IIA, IIIA, VIIA; Phillips 494.
Pub Note:
Atlas of Africa, dedicated to Nicolas Fouquet, with 18 double page of maps, each followed by several pages of text describing the area shown on the map. Including maps of various Empires, Kingdoms, States, Republics and Islands. Maps are copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouches, some engraved by J. L'huillier (J. L.) and A Peyrounin. Showing political divisions, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. This is the third volume of the first edition of Sanson's quarto Atlas, a geographical description of the four continents of the world in 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:
11575.000
Pub Type:
Regional Atlas
Pub Maps:
18
Pub Height cm:
26
Pub Width cm:
19
Image No:
11575053.jp2
Authors:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
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Partie De La Haute Aethiopie ou sont L'Empire des Abissins et la Nubie &c.
