JAILLOT (Alexis Hubert).

Tablettes geographiques, ou recueil des principales cartes, generales ou particulieres, pour l'usage de toutes sortes de personnes, & principalement des voyageurs ...

Second edition. Letterpress title-page, printed in red and black, index leaf calling for twenty-two items, eighteen double-page engraved maps, two folding and two single-page scientific diagrams or schemas, many of the maps with armorial borders. Interleaved with four Pieter Schenk plans, three siege plans printed in bistre. 4to (200 by 160mm). 19th century half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt. Some light staining, the paper of the margins a little soft, marginal repairs to three maps, one repair affecting “La Palestine.” Paris, Alexis Hubert Jaillot, [but Amsterdam : Pierre Mortier sr.?], 1699.

£4,000.00

Very rare atlas, apparently first published in 1695 and here re-issued in 1699. It comprises maps of the world and five continents (the Americas on two maps), celestial hemispheres, maps of the countries of Europe and Palestine or the Holy Land.

This atlas seems to have sparked a resurgence in maps with armorial side borders, heretofore attributed to the slightly later publisher Daniel de la Feuille. The atlas is further indication of the relationship between Jaillot and Pierre Mortier, where Mortier published a sequence of atlases in Amsterdam, disguised under Jaillot’s Paris imprint.

Reference: this atlas is unrecorded in Pastoureau; one copy of the 1695 edition (only) has been traced in an institution.

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186588