Europe Maritime et Generale de Toutes les Costes des Mers, Oceane et Mediterrané..

Europe Maritime et Generale de Toutes les Costes des Mers, Oceane et Mediterrane’, ensemble toute les Isles Glfes Portz et Havres Faites Amsterdam par G. Blaeux et se vend à Paris chez Nicolas Berey au bout du pont Neuf proche les Augustins au deux Globes 1664.

Etching with fine original colouring, very good condition. Example of the second state of tw, with the date changed into 1664.

Taken from: Cartes generalles de toutes les provinces de France et d’Espaigne, revues et corrigées par le S[ie]r T[assin] geographe ordinaire du roy. 1648. A Paris che N. Berey au bout du pont neuf proche les Augustin au deux globes.

Chart of the Mediterranean by Nicolas I Berey, based on the map of Europe by Willem J. Blaeu, of which he represents a reduction of the only area of ​​the Mediterranean Sea.

As documented by the catalog of prints of the British Museum (1829), the map is printed for the first time with the date 1646, while in almost all the existing specimens today the date is correct in 1664; the traces of the correction are clearly visible. The map, separate publication by Berey, appears for the first time in the collection "Cartes generalles de toutes les provinces de France et d'Espaigne" (1648), atlas initiated by Christophe Tassin in 1633, and reprinted by Berey starting from 1644. In the same year,Tassin sold his chalcographic fund to Nicolas Berey and Antoine De Fer.

Nicolas Berey (circa 1610 - Paris, 30 June 1665) known as Nicolas I to distinguish him from his son Nicolas II, also an engraver and editor, was the son of Jean Berey of Chaource. Date and place of birth are not known with certainty. He settled in Paris, where he married three times. Nicolas II Berey (1640 - 1667), was born from his first marriage. From her second marriage her daughter Jeanne and her son Claude-Auguste were born (Paris, 1660 - 1730), who settled in Paris as an engraver, publisher and print merchant.

In 1644, Nicolas I had a printing press at the Quai des Augustins in Paris, with a "Les Deux Globes" typographic sign. On his maps he used the imprint "A Paris chez Nicolas Berey proche les Augustins" with reference to a neighborhood in which other publishers and print merchants were active at the time.

Bibliografia: British Museum, Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., Londra, 1829, p. 28; Mare Nostrum, a historic voyage across the Mediterranean Sea, Lussemburgo, 2003, p. 26; M. Pastoureau, Les Atlas Imprimés en France avant 1700, in “Imago Mundi” Vol. 32 (1980), pp. 45-72; M. Pastoureau, Les Atlas Francais XVIe-XVIIe siècles, Parigi, 1984, p. 444, Tassin 3C.