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Nicolas Sanson, Paris, c. 1667
Full contemporary calf, expertly rebacked preserving original spine in six compartments of raised bands and decorated with elaborate gilt motifs, morocco label on two, edges speckled red. , An excellent copy of this important 17th century atlas of the Americas, text and maps are clean and crisp. In protective cloth slipcase., 4to, P. 1-112., Recent stencilled title. Complete with 15 maps of the Americas and their territories, in original outline colour.
This atlas was dedicated to the Superintendent of Finances at the time, Nicolas Fouquet.
This is the first French atlas to focus on the Americas.
Regarding the map entitled ‘Le Canada’, Burden writes: “This map is drawn from Sanson’s similarly entitled folio map. Together they would considerably influence the cartography of the region for over 100 years, and they would not be superseded until Guillaume de L’Isle’s ‘Carte du Canada’, in 1703. … [Lake Erie] is here placed some 2 ½ degrees too far south, increasing the area claimed by the French.”
Regarding the map entitled ‘La Floride’, Burden writes: “The name ‘Florida’ at this time was used to indicate a far larger region. It came to be used solely for the peninsula as the Spanish possession was squeezed south by the expansion of the English colonies. The majority of the map is still dominated by Ortelius-Chaves type nomenclature of 1584. This was an area still virtually unknown to the Europeans, as the confusion over the Mississippi River illustrates.”
As to the map entitled ‘Audience de Guadalajara’, Burden writes: “Unlike others in Sanson’s quarto atlas, this map is an original composition. No earlier one accentuated an insular California so much…. It concentrated on territory that was still virtually unknown. … California’s place names are a combination of Blaeu’s and Sanson’s, the latter’s having been translated into Spanish to keep them uniform. … New Indian tribes are identified in the region of the R. del Norte, or Rio Grande, which is still mistakenly flowing south-west.”
, Tooley Q-Z 103. Philip D. Burden 324-327.
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