SEA CHART THAMES, EAST ANLGIA CARTE DE L'ENTREE DE LA TAMISE
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A magnificent chart of the Thames Estuary and the North Sea coast from Sandwich in Kent to Clay in Norfolk. A detailed inset chart of the River Thames as far as London is also included. North is oriented to the right of the page. The map was originally published in the "Neptune Francois" in Paris in 1693 by Alexis Hubert Jaillot and this was soon pirated by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam and published the same year. This example is from a later publication of the "Neptune Francois" by J.N.Bellin to whom the original plates passed in an official capacity,AND this exact plate was used by the Depot De LA Marine.The chart is crossed by numerous rhumb lines and includes only coastal detail (no inland towns are named) along with sounding depths and sand banks - a useful working document.
Printed on heavy paper.
Very good condition.
code : M2179
Cartographer : JAILLOT & COLLABORATORS
Date : 1760 c Paris
Size : 49.5*89.5cms
availability : Sold
Price : Sold
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Alexis Hubert Jaillot (c.1632-1712). In 1664 he married Jeanne Berey, the daughter of Nicolas Berey, the map publisher, and following the death of his father-in-law and his brother-in-law (also Nicolas), the business passed to Jaillot and he was to gain access to much of the stock.
On the death of Nicolas Sanson, his firm passed to his sons Guillaume and Adrien. They took Alexis Hubert Jaillot into partnership in 1671, now well-established at 'Aux Deux Globes', and he was to become second only to Sanson himself among the early school of French cartographers.
A number of Sanson's maps had been prepared but never published and others were in need of revision, so Jaillot began the process of preparing new maps on larger plates. These were published in the "Atlas Nouveau", published from 1681 onwards, although individual maps date from 1672.
After the break-up of his partnership with the Sansons, Jaillot joined with the Amsterdam publisher Pierre Mortier, who engraved virtually identical copies of these large maps, re-issued from 1692 onwards. In a similar vein, Mortier also copied the maps from Jaillot's "Atlas Francois" to be re-issued by him in the "Atlas Royal".
These Jaillot atlases, both in the French and Dutch versions, mark the end of the dominance of the flamboyant Dutch school of cartography, which was superseded by the more scientifically based French school. Jaillot exemplified the scientific approach of the French school, which was to reach full maturity in the next century under Guillaume de l'Isle and his heirs, and Jean Baptist d'Anville, who established France as the centre of European cartography.
