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Auction 189, Lot 279

"Audience de Mexico", Sanson, Nicolas

Subject: Mexico

Period: 1683 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
10.7 x 6.4 inches
27.2 x 16.3 cm
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This is an attractive small map focusing on the region of central and southern Mexico with the Yucatan Peninsula. It is adorned with a drape-style title cartouche. Engraved by Antoine de Winter.

Sanson's small maps from his L'Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes..., first published in 1656 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: cf. Pastoureau, SANSON II F [4].

Condition: A

On a clean sheet with a tiny chip in the top left margin that has been repaired with archival materials.

Estimate: $150 - $180

Sold for: $95

Closed on 9/14/2022

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