COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Date:
1648
Short Title:
Title Page: L'Europe
Publisher:
N. Sanson
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Title Page
Obj Height cm:
25
Obj Width cm:
33
Note:
Atlas of Europe, dedicated to Michel Le Tellier. With double page engraved decorative title page, unnumbered explanatory text and 12 folded maps of various Empires, Kingdom, States, Republics and Islands. Maps are copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche, some engraved by A. Peyrounin. Showing major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. First volume of the first edition of Sanson's quarto atlas, a geographical description of the four continents of the world in separate volumes, L'Evrope, Asie, Afrique, Ameriqve, 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 map
Reference:
Pastoreau Sanson IA, IIA, IIIA, VIIA; Phillips 494.
Full Title:
(Title Page to) L'Evrope. Dediee a Monseigneur. Monseigneur le Tellier, secret. d'estat &c. Par N. Sanson le fils Geographe du Roy. A Paris chez l'Autheur avec privilege pour 20 ans.
List No:
11573.002
Series No:
2
Engraver or Printer:
Peyrounin, Abraham
Publication Author:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Pub Date:
1648
Pub Title:
L'Europe. Dediee a Monseigneur. Monseigneur le Tellier, secret. d'estat &c. Par N. Sanson le fils Geographe du Roy. A Paris chez l'Autheur avec privilege pour 20 ans.
Pub Reference:
Pastoreau Sanson IA, IIA, IIIA, VIIA; Phillips 494.
Pub Note:
See note field above.
Pub List No:
11573.000
Pub Type:
Regional Atlas
Pub Maps:
12
Pub Height cm:
26
Pub Width cm:
19
Image No:
11573002.jp2
Authors:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Link To Source
Title Page: L'Europe
