NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND 1665 SANSON ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP

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NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND 1665 SANSON ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND 1665 SANSON ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
Description
L'Amerique Septentrionale Par N. Sanson. d'Abbeville Geograph du Roy
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Description:
Striking and highly detailed fine
1695
scarce edition of Sanson's seminal map of North America, which would influence the cartography of the region for the next 100 years. Along with Sanson's Folio map issued a year earlier, this map includes many firsts and changes of great note. The Rio Grande is shown draining into the Mer Vermelio (Sea of Cortez) rather than the Gulf of Mexico. Much improvement in the drainage of the Great Lakes and St Lawrence. The map draws heavily on the Jesuit explorations to the west and the travels of the French Fur Traders. Greater detail shown in Hudson Bay than in earlier maps. Calfiornia is shown as an island, with excellent detail in the Southwest. Cibola and Conibas are named, as are the Apaches regions. The Mississippi is not yet well charted, coming prior to La Salle's reports. The classic open Great Lakes from Sanson's North American map are shown in fine detail. Variant edition of McLaughlin 119, without Piskart's name as the engraver.
A large figurate title cartouche and a compass rose complete the map.
Date:
1695 ( undated )
Dimension:
Paper size approx.:
cm 25,5 x 18,2
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Short marginto the top. Wide lower margin. Quite right lateral margin, partially missing to the bottom. Wide left lateral margin. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images
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Mapmakers:
Nicolas Sanson (1600 - 1667) and his descendants were the most influential French cartographers of the 17th century and laid the groundwork for the Golden Age of French Cartography. Sanson started his career as a historian where, it is said, he turned to cartography as a way to illustrate his historical studies. In the course of his research some of his fine maps came to the attention of King Louis XIII who, admiring the quality of his work, appointed Sanson Geographe Ordinaire du Roi. Sanson's duties in this coveted position included advising the king on matters of geography and compiling the royal cartographic archive. In 1644 he partnered with Pierre Mariette, an established print dealer and engraver, whose business savvy and ready capital enabled Sanson to publish an enormous quantity of maps. Sanson's corpus of some three hundred maps initiated the golden age of French mapmaking and he is considered the 'Father of French Cartography.' His work is distinguished a
s being the first of the 'Positivist Cartographers,' a primarily French school of cartography that valued scientific observation over historical cartographic conventions. The practice result of the is less embellishment of geographical imagery, as was common in the Dutch Golden Age maps of the 16th century, in favor of conventionalized cartographic representational modes. Sanson is most admired for his construction of the magnificent atlas Cartes Generales de Toutes les Parties du Monde. Sanson's maps of North America, Amerique Septentrionale (1650), Le Nouveau Mexique et La Floride (1656), and La Canada ou Nouvelle France (1656) are exceptionally notable for their important contributions to the cartographic perceptions of the New World. Both maps utilize the discoveries of important French missionaries and are among the first published maps to show the Great Lakes in recognizable form. Sanson was also an active proponent of the insular California theory, wherein it was speculated that California was an island rather than a peninsula. After his death, Sanson's maps were frequently republished, without updates, by his sons, Guillaume (1633 - 1703) and Adrien Sanson (? - 1708). Even so, Sanson's true cartographic legacy as a 'positivist geographer' was carried on by others, including Alexis-Hubert Jaillot, Guillaume De L'Isle, Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, and Pierre Duval
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