Isle d'Auphine communement Nommèe par les Europeans Madagascar, et St. Laurens…
| Reference: | S14070 |
| Author | Nicolas SANSON |
| Year: | 1667 |
| Zone: | Madagascar |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 585 x 455 mm |
€550.00
| Reference: | S14070 |
| Author | Nicolas SANSON |
| Year: | 1667 |
| Zone: | Madagascar |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 585 x 455 mm |
€550.00
Description
Isle d'Auphine, Communement Nommée par les Europeens Madagascar, et St. Laurens, et par les Habitans du Pays Madecase: Dressée Sur les Memoires du Sr. de Flacourt, et de François Cauche; et Sur Diverses autres Relations des François, Anglois, Portugais et Hollandois. Par le Sr. Sanson le Fils Geogr.' ordre. du Roy. A Paris. Chez Pierre Mariette Rue St. Jacques a l'Esperance Avec Privilege pour Vingt Ans. 1667.
Fine map of Madagascar, also showing the Comoros Islands in the North West and the Reunion Island in the South East. With decorative title cartouche representing some natives, a compass rose and a vessel in the Indian Ocean.
The map was perhaps the finest and most up to date of its time, utilized by contemporary explorers.
It is based on the report from two early French accounts of the islands; Etienne de Flacourt and Francois Cauche, who voyaged to Madagascar in 1638. Étienne de Flacourt (1607 - 1660), who from 1648 to 1653 was French East India’s Governor of Madagascar, and who in 1658 published the first natural history of the island, Histoire de la grande isle Madagascar. For this work, Flacourt produced an excellent map: The Bibliotheque National de France has a manuscript map attributed to Flacourt dated 1656, a printed version of which appeared in Flacourt’s 1658 Isle de Madagascar autrement dicte Isle St. Laurens. This represents the first mapping of the island to improve substantially on Jan Huyghen van Linschoten's (1563 - 1611) work, and was far superior to any map of the island produced prior.
Map taken from "Cartes Gènerales de toutes les parties du Monde" by Sanson.
The maps were compiled by Nicolas Sanson who published his atlas in 1654, with 100 maps, and printed by Pierre Mariette; they were issued progressively from 1630.
Sanson was the most noted French cartographer in modern history. Mapmaker to Louis XIV, King of France, Sanson endowed his maps with the most recent geographical information as well as the finest and sharpest engraving of the period. His "Cartes Generales de Toutes les Parties du Monde" was the most important single product of French commercial cartography of the seventeenth century.
Copperplate, fine original colour with retouches, in good condition.
Bibliografia
M. Pastoureau, Sanson VB, 115, p. 606.
Nicolas SANSON (Abbeville 1600 - Parigi 1667)
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Nicolas Sanson (December 20, 1600 - July 7, 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 was born in Picardy, but his family was of Scottish Descent. He studied with the Jesuit Fathers at Amiens. 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 as 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 (1639 - 1718). 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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Nicolas SANSON (Abbeville 1600 - Parigi 1667)
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Nicolas Sanson (December 20, 1600 - July 7, 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 was born in Picardy, but his family was of Scottish Descent. He studied with the Jesuit Fathers at Amiens. 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 as 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 (1639 - 1718). 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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