"L'Empire du Sophy des Perses", Sanson, Nicolas

This is a reduced version of Sanson's map of the Persian Empire covering the region of present-day Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran with a part of the Arabian Peninsula. The map extends east to the mouth of the Indus River and is filled with cities, political divisions, and topographical details. Engraved by Antoine d' Winter and decorated with a laurel wreath-style cartouche.

Sanson's small maps from his L'Asie en Plusieurs Cartes..., first published in 1652 and engraved by A. Peyrounin, were copied several times by various map publishers. Johann David Zunners made copies of Sanson's maps for his German translation of Die Gantze Erd-Kugel in 1679. Johannes Ribbius and Simon de Vries published copies in 1682 and 1683, with new maps engraved by Antoine d'Winter. The plates were later sold to Francois Halma, who used them in 1699 and then again in 1705 with the titles re-engraved in Dutch. The titles on the d'Winter plates were re-engraved back into French, and then used by Nicholas Chemereau in 1715 and by Henri du Sauzet in 1738.

References: Pastoureau, SANSON III F bis.

Condition: A

A crisp impression on a bright sheet of watermarked paper with an old manuscript page number at top left. There is a small worm hole in the right blank margin and binding holes in the left blank margin.