Somer, Jean (sold)
Jean Pruthenus Somer (fl. 1650 - 1665), aka Sommer, also known as Jean Somers Pruthenus ('Pruthenus' means 'The Prussian'), was a Prussian engraver active in Paris in the middle part of the 17th century. Somer worked extensively for Sanson and Mariette, for whom he was the principal map engraver. His imprint appears on many of Sanson's most influential maps.
The first specific map of Vietnam!
Carte du Royaume d'Annam, comprenant les Royaumes du Tumkin et de la Cocinchine.
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An extraordinary rarity, this is the Alexander de Rhodes and Pierre Mariette 1653 map of Vietnam. This is considered the first specific map of the Kingdom of Annam, or Tonkin, what would later become North Vietnam. Coverage extends from roughly Quảng Ngãi, north to the Chinese border, and west as far as Laos and Cambodia. This map represents a major milestone in the mapping of Vietnam and would prove the underpinning cartography of this region through the mid-19th century. (more details)
Updating Baffin's Mughal Empire.
L'Inde deçà et de là Gange, ou est L'Empire do Grand Mogol et Pays Circonvoisins Tirée de Purchas, et de diverses Relations les plus nouvelles.
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This is an attractive example of Nicolas Sanson's 1654 map of the Mughal Empire of Northern India. It is a significant illustration of the early Silk Route trade networks between India and Kabul. The map thus embraces the northern parts of modern India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Burma, as well as parts of Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. (more details)
A must-have for the early mapping of the American west.
Le Nouveau Mexique, et la Floride: Tirées de diverses Cartes, et Relations. Par N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geogr ordre du Roy. A Paris. Chez Pierre Mariette, Rue S. Jacque a l'Esperance Avec Privilege du Roy, pour vingt Ans. 1656.
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This is a beautiful example of Nicolas Sanson's 1656 map of New Mexico and Florida: the first atlas map to emphasize this geographical focus. It also presented arguably the most influential depiction of California-as-an-island, providing the dominant model of that cartography for the remainder of the seventeenth century, reaching into the eighteenth. (more details)
Sanson’s 1650 map of North America and 1656 map of New Mexico seem to the present writer by far the most interesting and important maps … - C. Wheat
Le Nouveau Mexique, et la Floride: Tirées de diverses Cartes, et Relations. Par N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geogr ordre du Roy. A Paris. Chez Pierre Mariette, Rue S. Iacque a l'Esperance Avec Privilege du Roy, pour vingt Ans. 1656.
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Sanson and Mariette's 1656 first edition map of the central and western part of North America is one of the most important maps ever published pertaining to the American west. This map represents the first time this region has been presented on such a scale and, a ... (more details)
Essential Canadianum: 'The primary map of this period... influenced the cartography of Canada for the next fifty years.' - Kershaw
Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France...
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This is Nicolas Sanson's 1656 map of Canada, the Northeast and the Great Lakes, in a superb, untrimmed example. It was among the most influential and important maps of the north part of the Americas to be printed in the 17th century - its depiction of Canada was not superseded until De l'Isle's 1703 Carte du Canada, and it featured the finest depiction of the Great Lakes until the 1687 Coronelli-Nolin. It is among the first printed maps to be informed by the reports of French Jesuit explorers, whose exploration of the Great Lakes region after Champlain's initial explorations was stalled by the 1648 escalation of the Beaver Wars (1603 - 1701) with the Iroquois Confederacy. Following the 1653 pause in the war, Jesuit and French fur traders resumed their push west, gradually revealing the form of the Great Lakes.
The map's treatment of the Arctic waters and Maritime Canada builds on Champlain's basic model, adding place names derived from Dutch and English exploration and preserving Button's explicit northwest passage leading from Button's Bay. (more details)
The map's treatment of the Arctic waters and Maritime Canada builds on Champlain's basic model, adding place names derived from Dutch and English exploration and preserving Button's explicit northwest passage leading from Button's Bay. (more details)
'The primary map of this period... influenced the cartography of Canada for the next fifty years.' - Kershaw
Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France...
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This is Nicolas Sanson's 1656 map of Canada, the Northeast, and the Great Lakes, in an attractive, untrimmed example. It ranks among the most influential and important maps of the north part of the Americas to be printed in the 17th century - its depiction of Canada was not superseded until De l'Isle's 1703 Carte du Canada, and it features the finest depiction of the Great Lakes until the 1687 Coronelli-Nolin. It is among the first printed maps to be informed by the reports of French Jesuit explorers, whose exploration of the Great Lakes region after Champlain's initial explorations was stalled by the 1648 escalation of the Beaver Wars (1603 - 1701) with the Iroquois Confederacy. Following the 1653 pause in the war, Jesuit and French fur traders resumed their push west, gradually revealing the form of the Great Lakes. (more details)