Samson

Best.-Nr. 3252 — Americas: Amsterdam Francois Halma 1705. Copper engraved map of Peru by N. Sanson from Halma's Algemeene Werelde Beschryving Vol. 3 Black and white; title in Dutch; verso blank; strapwork title cartouche. The map shows the western part of the continent and the full course of the Amazon. The spurious Lac ou Mer de Parime is prominent as is the location of the mythical city Manoa el Dorado. 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. 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. Halma acquired many of the plates for Algemeene Weereld-Beschryving from Joannes Ribbius who had enlisted the services of engraver Antoine de Winter to make copies of the maps in Nicolas Sanson's quarto atlases of the four continents. De Winter made very few geographical changes and maintained the attribution to Sanson on the newly engraved plates. Halma supplemented the Sanson maps with about a dozen new maps engraved in the same style as Sanson's without any attribution on the maps as well as 23 panoramic views of famous cities around the world. Keoman: Hal 1; Phillips 528. Americas South America Peru Amsterdam Francois Halma 1705 unknown