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Striking large and highly detailed map of Italy, the Adriatic, Mediterranean and contiguous islands, including Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.
Two highly decorative large cartouches.
One of the best large format maps of Italy to appear in a commercial atlas at the end of the 17th Century.
Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (ca. 1632-1712) was one of the most important French cartographers of the seventeenth century. Jaillot traveled to Paris with his brother, Simon, in 1657, hoping to take advantage of Louis XIV's call to the artists and scientists of France to settle and work in Paris. Originally a sculptor, he married the daughter of Nicholas Berey, Jeanne Berey, in 1664, and went into partnership with Nicholas Sanson's sons. Beginning in 1669, he re-engraved and often enlarged many of Sanson's maps, filling in the gap left by the destruction of the Blaeu's printing establishment in 1672.
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