Turkey in Asia.
Sanson d'Abbeville, Nicholas
A.d'Winter
Turkey in Asia. Turkeyen in Asia. Amsterdam Francois Halma 1705
Copper engraved map of Turkey in Asia by N. Sanson from Halma's
Algemeene Werelde BeschryvingVol. 3 Black and white; title in Dutch; verso blank; strapwork title cartouche.
A general map showing Turkey and the Caucases , with the coast of Greece and North Africae extending to the Caspian Sea in the East
This map appeared in
Algemeene Weereld-Beschryving, nae de Rechte Verdeeling der Landschappen, Plaetsen, Zeeën, Rivieren, &c. Geographisch, Politisch, Historisch, Chronologisch en Genealogisch, a Dutch edition of A. Phérotée de la Croix's
Nouvelle Methode Pour Apprendre Facilement la Geographie Universelle, which first appeared in 1690. Dark impression. Upper margin short, cut to plate mark ; light dampstaining to lower margin.
Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville.(1600-67),
' father of the French cartography' and founder of the Sanson firm. Atlas ' Cartes générales de toutes les parties du Monde', 1658-70 and a pocket atlas in 4 parts ( 1652-1705).
Sanson's small maps from A. Phérotée de la Croix's
Nouvelle Methode Pour Apprendre Facilement la Geographie Universelle,., 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.
François Halma ( 1653 - 1722)
Dutch publisher/printer; dealer/auction house. Cartographer and publisher of maps, active in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Franeker and Leeuwarden.
Published 'Description de l'Univers' (1700); 'Algemene Wereldtbescrijving' (1705); 'Corpus Inscriptionum' (1707) and 'Lexicon Philosophicum' (1713).
Keoman: Hal 1; Phillips 528. 192 by 252mm (7½ by 10 inches).
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