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Sanson d'Abbeville, Partie de Barbarie, ou sont les Royaumes de Tunis, et Tripol

Tunisia / Libya – Sanson d’Abbeville, Nicolas. (1600 – 1667).

Partie de Barbarie, ou sont les Royaumes de Tunis, et Tripoli, Tires de Sanut et d’Autres.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Paris, Sanson d’Abbeville, [c.1658]. Plate Size: 28 cm x 18.2 cm. Sheet Size: 35.6 cm x 25 cm. Original map. In very good condition. With only the faintest signs of browning. Map orientated to the north.

[Pastoreau Sanson IA, IIA, IIIA, VIIA; Phillips 494.].
A richly detailed map showing the Barbary coastline, from Algeria in the west, across Tunisia and to Tripoli and the ‘Seiches de Barbarie ou Golfe de Sidra’ (the Gulf of Sidra), in what is now Libya, in the east. From ‘L’Afrique’, one section of his great work, ‘Cartes Générales de Toutes les Parties du Monde’, published between 1654 and 1676. Engraved with mountain, forest and river features. The map-maker’s ability to conjure up an impression of the region’s ruggedness and aridness occasionally interrupted with verdant oases is evident. Even the lonely desert wilderness sound appealing with names such as ‘Solitudo Tidit’ and ‘Solitudo Metalavet’. To the south of the Tripoli lies the country of Biledul Gerid – the region’s name said to be derived from the Arabic words signifying the land of dates because it abounded with that kind of fruit more than any other place in Africa (John Wilkes, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, 1810, p.27.)
Ornamental title cartouche and border inlaid with longitudinal and latitudinal details.

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)

 

Sanson d'Abbeville, Partie de Barbarie,
Sanson d'Abbeville, Partie de Barbarie,
Sanson d'Abbeville, Partie de Barbarie,
Sanson d'Abbeville, Partie de Barbarie,