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Jaillot
MAPS FROM JAILLOT'S ATLAS NOUVEAU
AMSTERDAM EDITION OF 1696
These double-page maps are highly detailed with hundreds of place names in each region depicted;
their geographic content is based on the work of Nicolas Sanson, Geographer to the King. Notable
features are the beautifully designed cartouches enclosing map titles, and scale bars which
incorporate the arms of the Grand Dauphin, to whom the atlas is dedicated.
Alexis-Hubert Jaillot collaborated with Sanson's heirs to publish many of Sanson's maps. Jaillot
(circa 1632-1712) began his professional life as a carver of ivory sculptures and was the son-in-law
of Nicolas Berey, a map-seller, publisher and print-colorist to the Queen. No doubt his father-in-law's
business connection with the royal family opened doors for Jaillot. His massive Atlas Nouveau was
first published in 1689, and again in 1691 and 1695, all in Paris.
Further editions appeared in Amsterdam in 1692, 1696 and 1698; these are sometimes referred to as
"pirated," but other sources merely describe the publisher, Pierre Mortier the Elder, as the editor.
Mireille Pastoureau notes Mortier lived in Paris between 1681 and 1685, and may have entered into an
agreement with Jaillot at that time, but no records survive to support the theory. Whether by
permission or pirated, each map gives full credit to Jaillot and most carry his obsequious
dedication to the Dauphin.
Cartobibliographer Sir Herbert George Fordham considers the new plates created for the Amsterdam
edition "finer...from the engraver's point of view, than the original engraved in Paris. However
this may be, from the geographical point of view, there is no distinction to be drawn between the
two issues of Paris and Amsterdam." (Fordham, p. 35)
The geographical information on Jaillot's maps eventually became outdated, but his striking
cartouches continued to attract attention - so much that Fordham, writing in the 1920s, tells us
they "have even become a subject of collection, to the destruction on a large scale, unfortunately,
of the maps themselves." (Ibid, p. 37) We are pleased to offer the maps below with their cartouches
intact.
For further reading:
Fordham, Some Notable Surveyors & Map-Makers of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth
Centuries and their Work (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1929)
Pastoureau, Les Atlas Francais XVIe - XVIIe Siècles (Bibliothèque Nationale: Paris, 1984)
All are copperplate engravings with original hand outline color and more recent color on the
cartouches published by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam, 1696 and most are dated as such (exceptions
are noted). With Jaillot's imprint and his Paris address. Because these large maps are two folio
sheets joined, the centerfolds are somewhat more fragile than most and several have been reinforced.
Nevertheless, condition is Very Good except as noted.
 | | 1. [Southern Belgium, Northern France] Le Comte De'Artois.... 21½ x 33¼. Centerfold reinforced with minor loss and creasing at lower graticule. Some surface dirt in the Atlantic. $300.00
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 | | 2. [Luxemburg] Le Duche De Luxembourg... 22½ x 27; light age-toning. Wide side margins. $850.00
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 | | 3. [Northwestern France] Le Gouvernment General De Picardie..., 1692. 21 x 31½; a bright, clean impression with reinforced centerfold. There is some rubbing with small losses in blank areas around the centerfold. SOLD
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 | | 4. [Brittany] Le Bretagne... 21 x 31; clean and bright save slight discoloration at the centerfold which has been reinforced. Edge tears repaired. $650.00
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 | | 5. Le Gouvernment General Du Dauphine... 21¼ x 33½. Split at lower centerfold. $300.00
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 | | 6. [Fontainbleau] Gouvernment D'Orleans..., 1693. 19¾ x 27¾. $300.00
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 | 7. [Paris Region] Le Gouvernment General De L'Isle De France; ou la Generalitie De Paris... Premiere Partie... And ...Seconde Partie du Gouvernment General De France... Two maps, each 16¾ x 25¼, each with the centerfold reinforced. Sold as a pair for $450.00
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 | | 8. [Denmark] Le Royaume De Danemark... 21½ x 34; lightly age-toned, slight discoloration at the lower centerfold. SOLD
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 | | 9. [Pomerania] Le Duche De Pomeraine... 1692. 20½ x 34; surface dirt and age-toning visible mainly on the left half. The centerfold is reinforced, and a faint, almost illegible, word in an old hand at the lower right. $500.00
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 | | 10. [Northern Germany] Le Marquisat... De Brandebourg... 21 x 35; stains in lower margin. $750.00
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 | | 11. [Lake Constance] Le Cercle De Souabe... 21 x 34; lower centerfold split. $350.00
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 | | 12. [Pyrenees Mountains] Les Montes Pyrenees on sent remarques Les Passages De France En Espagne..., 1676. Centerfold repair with minor losses mainly in blank areas and in the lower graticule. 21 x 34. SOLD
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 | | 13. [Greece] La Moree Et les Isles de Zante, Cafalonie... 22 x 33. Repair to small hole about 1/8" (0.4 cm) diameter in blank area. $850.00
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 | | 14. [Greece, the Balkans] Etats De L'Empire Des Turqs En Europe... 21½ x 34; scattered stains in the sea and in margins, centerfold strengthened with minor losses accomplished in facsimile. Overall Good+. SOLD
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 | | 15. [Asia] L'Asie divisee en ses Principales Parties... 21½ x 34½. Centerfold repaired; a few scattered stains mainly in blank areas; tear repair upper right, but overall VG. SOLD
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 | | 16. [South America] Amerique Meridionale divisee en ses principales Parties. 22 x 34½. Light discoloration and repairs to the centerfold. A crisp impression. $850.00
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