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Antique maps by Nicolas Sanson

Nicholas Sanson (1600-1667) is considered the father of French cartography in its golden age from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. Over the course of his career he produced over 300 maps; they are known for their clean style and extensive research. Sanson was largely responsible for beginning the shift of cartographic production and excellence from Amsterdam to Paris in the later-seventeenth century.

Sanson was born in Abbeville in Picardy. He made his first map at age twenty, a wall map of ancient Gaul. Upon moving to Paris, he gained the attention of Cardinal Richelieu, who made an introduction of Sanson to King Louis XIII. This led to Sanson's tutoring of the king and the granting of the title ingenieur-geographe du roi.

His success can be chalked up to his geographic and research skills, but also to his partnership with Pierre Mariette. Early in his career, Sanson worked primarily with the publisher Melchior Tavernier. Mariette purchased Tavernier’s business in 1644. Sanson worked with Mariette until 1657, when the latter died. Mariette’s son, also Pierre, helped to publish the Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (1658), Sanson' atlas and the first French world atlas.

[ Colombia & Venezuela ] Terra Firma & Nova Granada &c. Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

11.5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97908

Estats du Czar ou Grand duc de la Russie Blanche ou Moscovie

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

19.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

102583

(Austria) Ertz-Hertzogthumb Oesterrich -- Archiduche D'Anstriche Haute, et Basse... 1657

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

12.5 x 19 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50453

Duché de Poméranie , divisé en ses princip. parties qui sont les princip. de Rugue, duchés de Stettin, Poméranie, Cassubie et Wandalie, comté de Gutzkow, baro. ou seign. de Wolgast, Barth, Louwenbourg et Butow... 1654

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1654

Size:

20 x 13 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50459

Isle de Madagascar ou de St. Laurens. Tiree de Sanutu &c. . . . 1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

11 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

71892

(Lower Saxony) Haute partie de la Basse Saxe ou sont les duchés de Magdebourg, Breme, Ferden, Lunebourg, Brunswick, princ. d'Halberstat, év. d'Hildesheim & c... 1690

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1690

Size:

21 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80682

(Liege and Maastricht) L'Etat et la Seignrie de Lyege. Partie Septentrionale. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1680 circa

Size:

18.75 x 14.75 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

81083

Germania antiqua . . . 1703

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1703

Size:

31.5 x 16 inches (plus text)

Condition:

Stock#:

82012

Graciae Antiquae Tabula Geographica Cujus QuinqueMajores Parts Sunt Macedonia, Theassalia, Epirus, Achaia et Peloponnesus . . . .1703

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1705

Size:

31 x 17 inches (plus text)

Condition:

Stock#:

82022

(Eastern Roman Empire) Imperium Orientis | Imperium Orientis

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1742

Size:

26 x 19 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

82076

(Lorraine) La Lorraine, et les Estats, qui passent sous le Nom de Lorraine, Le Duche de Bar, et les Terres Adjacentes, au Duc de Lorraine

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1661

Size:

19.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

87972

America Meridionalis Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Nuremberg / 1679

Size:

10.75 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97907

[ Brazil ] Brasilia Lusitanorum in XIV praefecturas divis. Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Nuremberg / 1679

Size:

10.75 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97912

Fretum Magellanicum cum terris & Insulis adjacentibus

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

97914

[ Julius Caesar's Gaul ] Gallia vetus ex C. Julii Caesaris commentariis descripta, ex conatibus... 1649

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1649

Size:

15 x 19 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102569

Galliae Antiquae descriptio geographica... 1641

Melchior Tavernier / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1641

Size:

16 x 21 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102570

Palatinat du Rhein, Alsace, et Partie de Souabe, de Franconie, et. . . .1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

17.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50446

Haute Saxe ou Estats du Duc et Eslecteur et des Ducs de la Maison Eslectorale de Saxe &c. ou sont les Duche de Saxe, Marquisat de Misnie, Landgraviat de Turinge, Marquisat de Lusace &c. subdivises en leurs Principales parties, estats & c... 1655

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1655

Size:

18 x 14 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80533

(Aachen, Dusseldorf, Cologne) Estats de la succession de Cleves et Iuliers, archeveschés et eslectorats de Mayence, Treves et Cologne, la Hesse, la Wetteravie et partie de Franconie, de Westphalie... 1648.

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

21.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80881

Picardie et les Pays Bas Catholiques…1648

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1648

Size:

21 x 15 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

80900

(Swabia) La Souabe ou sont les Estats et Souverainetes Ecclesiastiques, Laiques, et Viles Imperiales qui Composent Le Cercle De Souabe. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1703

Size:

16.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

81253

[ El Dorado! ] Guiana in Guianam & Caribanam divisa. Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

10.75 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97909

Paraguay in partes suas praecipuas divisum. Per N. Sanson

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurth / 1679

Size:

10.75 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97913

(Ancient Britain) Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort ou sont les Comtes de Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland Lancaster, et Yorck.

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1658

Size:

20 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG-

Stock#:

50433

Partie de la Barbarie, ou est le Royaume d'Alger. . . 1655

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1655

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

67395

(Auvergne) Gouvernement General du Lyonnois Suivant les derniers Estats Generaux. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650 circa

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

84321

Germania antiqua... 1641

Melchior Tavernier / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1641

Size:

21 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50506

Royaume de Congo &c . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1657 (1683)

Size:

11 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

77662

[ Descendants of Noah ] Table historique du second age du monde tiree de la Genese...

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1717

Size:

16.25 x 11 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

82009

Isles Britanniques . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657 (1683)

Size:

7.5 x 9.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

83662

La Beauce ou sont les Eslections de Chartres, Dourdan, Estampes Pluviers, Chasteau-Dun, et Pays Circovoisins

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1652

Size:

22.5 x 16.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85777

Tryk van Persien

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1683 circa

Size:

9.5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

93518

'T Koninkryk van Congo

Francois Halma / Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1705

Size:

10.5 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

95653

(Country of the Negroes) Africa, sive Lybia Ulterior ubi sunt Desertum Saaia Nigritarum Regio & Guinea

Nicolas Sanson / Adam Friedrich Zurner

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1676

Size:

11.5 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

99994

Gouvernement General De La Picardie, Artois, Boulenois, et Pays Reconquis &c. . . . 1651

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1651

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

85709

Royaume et Desert De Barca, et L'Aegypte divisee en se Princiaples Parties

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657 (1683)

Size:

11 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

49949

Archived

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c….

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

0627

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c….

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1662

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

2679

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c….

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1662

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

7399

'T Gebiedt van Guadalajara Niew Mexico, en Californie enz…

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1665

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

7691

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c….

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657 (1662)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

7888

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1657 (1683)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

49481

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1657 (1683)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

49654

Audienca De Guadalajara, Nova Mexico, California, &c . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

9.5 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

59345

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1657 (1683)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

65680

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nou.lle Gallice, Iucatan &c. et autres Provinces jusques a L'Isthme de Panama . . .1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

22 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

68930

Audienca De Guadalajara, Nova Mexico, California, &c . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

9.5 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

97905

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nou.lle Gallice, Iucatan &c. et autres Provinces jusques a L'Isthme de Panama . . .1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

13609

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nou.lle Gallice, Iucatan &c. et autres Provinces jusques a L'Isthme de Panama . . .1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

14.5 x 22 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50485

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nou.lle Gallice, Iucatan &c. et autres Provinces jusques a L'Isthme de Panama . . .1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

14.5 x 22 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

57257

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nouv.lle Gallice, Iucatan &c. et autres Provinces jusques a L'Isthme de Panama . . .1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

22 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

62226

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c….

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1682

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

13106

Amerique Septentrionale [unrecorded edition!]

Nicolas Sanson / P. Piskart

Place/Date:

Paris / 1695

Size:

11 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

4341

Le Canada ou Nouvelle France &c. Tiree de diverses Relations des Francois, Anglois, Hollandois &c. . . . 1657

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

12 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

9466

Partie De Lithuanie ou sont les Palatinats de Wilna et Troki, subdvises en leurs Chastellenies. et Parti du Palat.at de Minsk. . . . 1665

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1665

Size:

19.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

22546

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nou.lle Gallice, Iucatan &c. et autres Provinces jusques a L'Isthme de Panama . . .1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

1032hh

Estats De La Couronne De Pologne ou sont les Royaume de Pologne, Duches et Provinces De Prusse, Cuiave, Mazovie, Russie Noire &c Duches De Lithuanie, Volynie Podolie &c. De L'Ukraine &c . . . 1655

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1655

Size:

22.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

25285

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657 (1662)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

27391

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

27702

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1657 (1683)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

40285

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . . (California as an Island)

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657 (1667)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

37313

Le Canada ou Nouvelle France &c. Tiree de diverses Relations des Francois, Anglois, Hollandois &c. . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1657 (1683)

Size:

12 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

49565

L'Hydrographie ou Descriprion de L'Eau c'est a dire des Mers, Golfes, Lacs, Destroits, et Rivieres principales, qui font dans la Surface du Globe Terrestre

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1652

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50412

Le Canada ou Nouvelle France &c. Tiree de diverses Relations des Francois, Anglois, Hollandois &c. . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657 (1683)

Size:

12 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

40074

Le Canada ou Nouvelle France &c. Tiree de diverses Relations des Francois, Anglois, Hollandois &c. . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1657 (1683)

Size:

12 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

40936

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657 (1683)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

57472

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1657 (1683)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

46687

Les deux poles arctique ou septentrional, et Antarctique ou meridional, ou description des terres arctiques et antarctiques, et des pays circomvoisins jusques aux 45 degres de latitude... 1657

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

15.5 x 21 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

0021dg

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1657 (1683)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

54218

Les Isles Antilles entre les quelles sont Les Lucayes et Les Caribes . . . 1656

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1656

Size:

22 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

56819

Atlantis Insula

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669 (1677 circa)

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

59827

'T Gebiedt van Guadalajara Niew Mexico, en Californie enz…

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1665

Size:

9.5 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

60936

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

63217

Audience De Guadalaiara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657 (1665) ca

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

65171

Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale Du Globe Terrestre Representee en deux Plan-Hemispheres Reveue et changee endroits Suivant les Relations les plus recentes . . . 1678

Pierre Mariette - Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1678

Size:

22.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

89603

Novus Orbis potius Altera Continens Atlantis Insula a Nicaloa Sanson Antiquitati Restituta . . . 1741 (America as the lost continent of Atlantis!)

Nicolas Sanson / Tipografia del Seminario

Place/Date:

Padua / 1670 (1741)

Size:

22 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102659

Atlantis Insula

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1690

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

103452

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c….

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1683

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

18025EG

Canada of Niew Vrankryk Getrokken uit Verscheide Fransche, Engelsche, en Hollandsche Beschryvingen enz.

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1682

Size:

12 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

25245

Audienca De Guadalajara, Nova Mexico, California, &c . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

26885

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1657

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

29512

Novus Orbis potius Altera Continens Atlantis Insula a Nicaloa Sanson Antiquitati Restituta . . . 1741 (America as the lost continent of Atlantis!)

Nicolas Sanson / Tipografia del Seminario

Place/Date:

Padua / 1670 circa (1741)

Size:

22 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

41120jc

Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale Du Globe Terrestre Representee en deux Plan-Hemispheres Reveue et changee endroits Suivant les Relations les plus recentes . . . 1669

Pierre Mariette - Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1669

Size:

22.5 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

42906

Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Utrecht / 1657 (1683)

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

42997

Les Isles Philippines Molucques et de la Sonde . . . 1654 [Includes Taiwan & Singpore]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1654

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

50716

Audienca De Guadalajara, Nova Mexico, California, &c . . .

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

47824