Beschreibung:

SANSON D’ABBEVILLE, Nicolas (1600-1667). L'Europe en plusieurs cartes et en divers traittes de geographie et d'histoire [with:] L'Asie en plusieurs cartes nouvelles et exactes … [with:] L'Afrique en plusieurs cartes nouvelles et exactes… [and:] L'Amerique en plusieurs cartes nouvelles et exactes… Paris: by the author, 1683. Complete edition of the ‘four Continents’ by Sanson d’Abbeville, known as the founder of French cartography. They had been published separately between 1647 and 1657. The maps, re-engraved by A. de Winter, are accompanied by texts uniting classical sources with modern travel accounts, including reports from Jesuit missionaries. Sanson d’Abbeville was the first in France to conceive the plan of a world atlas, and was the author of hundreds of maps, including the first map to represent the five great Canadian lakes. Pastoureau, Sanson I F, II F, III F, VII F; Phillips Atlases 494. 4 parts in 1 vol., quarto (217 x 165mm). First part with additional engraved title by Jean de La Avelen; with 62 double-page engraved maps: 11 for Europe, 18 for Asia, 18 for Africa, and 15 for the Americas (top margin of nnn1 cropped short, some marginal waterstaining in the upper inner corner of the first few quires, else a clean copy). Contemporary sprinkled calf, panelled spine decorated and lettered in gilt (joints cracked but holding, extremities rubbed, corners bumped, a few abrasions to sides). Provenance : ‘Carolus Huys’ (near-contemporary inscription to front free end-paper) – ‘Ferdinandus ?Cleenewerch’ (purchase note dated 1722, front free end-paper) – ‘Cathol. Archigymnasium ?Hessen’ (small round stamp on verso of the first title).