COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Date:
1657
Short Title:
Covers: L'Amerique
Publisher:
N. Sanson
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Covers
Obj Height cm:
26
Obj Width cm:
19
Note:
Atlas of Americas, dedicated to Nicolas Fouquet, with 15 folded maps and explanatory text of various empires, peoples, colonies, customs, languages, religions and wealth. Maps are copper engraved double page, hand colored in outline, with decorative cartouche, some engraved by A. Peyrounin. Showing administrative and political divisions, major cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, drainage, etc. Relief shown pictorially. This is the fourth 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.
Reference:
Pastoreau Sanson IA, IIA, IIIA, VIIA; Phillips 494.
Full Title:
(Covers to) L'Amerique en plusieurs cartes, & en divers traitte's de geographie et d'histoire : la ou sont descripts succinctement, & avec vne belle methode & facile : ses empires, ses peuples, ses colonies, leurs moeurs, langues, religions, richesse &c. : et ce qu'il y a de plus beau, & de plus rare dans toutes ses parties & dans ses isles. Dediee a Monseigneur Monseigneur Foucquet ... Par N. Sanson d' Abbeville, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. A Paris chez l'Autheur.
List No:
11576.001
Series No:
1
Engraver or Printer:
Peyrounin, Abrahim
Publication Author:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Pub Date:
1657
Pub Title:
L'Amerique en plusieurs cartes, & en divers traitte's de geographie et d'histoire : la ou sont descripts succinctement, & avec vne belle methode & facile : ses empires, ses peuples, ses colonies, leurs moeurs, langues, religions, richesse &c. : et ce qu'il y a de plus beau, & de plus rare dans toutes ses parties & dans ses isles. Dediee a Monseigneur Monseigneur Foucquet ... 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:
Se note field above.
Pub List No:
11576.000
Pub Type:
Regional Atlas
Pub Maps:
15
Pub Height cm:
26
Pub Width cm:
19
Image No:
11576001.jp2
Authors:
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Link To Source
Covers: L'Amerique
