Portugal – Sanson d’Abbeville, Nicolas. (1600 – 1667).

Parte Septentrional do Reyno de Portugal.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Paris, Sanson d’Abbeville, 1678. Plate Size: 53.6 cm x 41.7 cm. Sheet Size: 61.8 cm x 46.5 cm. Original map. In very good condition. Faint signs of browning to map. Minor paper imperfections to the outer margins. Small stain to map near centre-fold.

A richly detailed map showing the northern part of Portugal. Relief on map depicted pictorially and border inlaid with longitudinal and latitudinal details The map is dominated by three rivers: the Tajo (Tagus) in the south, the Douro and the Minho further north. The Spanish kingdom and regions such as Leon are included, and the great city of Salamanca can be seen. The lower part of the map runs out before the Tagus estuary empties into the Atlantic at Lisbon.
The ornamental title cartouche is in the lower right corner of the map. Off the coast is a large warship flying the coat-of-arms Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves. The sails of the boat carry Latin text commemorates the commercial and maritime exploits of King John IV in Africa, Arabia, Ethiopia, Persia, India and Brazil.

Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) was a French cartographer, termed by some the creator of French geography, in which he’s been called the “father of French cartography.” The French school of Geography was unprecedented in its attention to precision and scientific detail and discarded much of the decorative embellishments of previous maps as irrelevant. From Sanson’s time in the second half of the seventeenth century until the latter part of the eighteenth century, French geographical conceptions were more influential than those put forward by any other nation. He was tutor to Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Sanson published over 300 maps. In 1692 Hubert Jaillot collected Sanson’s maps in an Atlas nouveau. (Wikipedia)

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• Inventory Number: 200041AG

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