This very large, beautifully hand coloured, 1st edition (uncommon) original antique map of Denmark by Alexis Hubert Jaillot - after Nicolas Sanson - was engraved in 1685 - the date is engraved in the scale cartouche. This is one of the most beautifully presented Jaillot maps I have seen for a while, fantastic colour, clean and heavy paper and a deep clear impression, signifying an early pressing.

After Nicolas Sanson, Hubert Jaillot and Pierre Duval were the most important French cartographers of the seventeenth centuries. Jaillot, originally a sculptor, became interested in geography after his marriage to the daughter of Nicolas Berey (1606-65), a famous map colourist, and went into partnership in Paris with Sanson's sons. There, from about 1669, he undertook the re-engraving, enlarging and re-publishing of the Sanson maps in sheet form and in atlases, sparing no effort to fill the gap in the map trade left by the destruction of Blaeu's printing establishment in Amsterdam in 1672. Many of his maps were printed in Amsterdam (by Pierre Mortier) as well as in Paris. One of his most important works was a magnificent sea atlas, Le Neptune François, published in 1693 and compiled in co-operation with J D Cassini. This was re-published shortly afterwards by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam with French, Dutch and English texts, the charts having been re-engraved. Eventually, after half a century, most of the plates were used again as the basis for a revised issue published by J N Bellin in 1753.(Ref: Tooley; M&B)

General Description:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color: - off white
Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Yellow, green, red, brown.
General color appearance: - Authentic and fresh
Paper size: - 36 1/2in x 25 1/2in (930mm x 650mm)
Plate size: - 35in x 24in (890mm x 610mm)
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light age toning along margins
Plate area: - Crease parallel to bottom centrefold
Verso: - None

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