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Attractive and detailed map of Scotland by Nolin.
Cartouche
Original outline colour
Good condition
code : M4835
Cartographer : NOLIN Jean Baptiste
Date : 1791 Paris
Size : 20.5*26.5 cms
availability : Sold
Price : Sold
NOLIN, Jean Baptiste
c. 1657-1708
J. B. Nolin set up the family publishing business in Paris in the Rue St Jacques where he engraved and sold a wide variety of maps, on some of which he wrongfully used the titles 'Engraver to the King' and 'Geographer to the Duke of Orleans'. On a complaint by Guillaume Delisle he was accused and convicted of plagiarism but his business continued to flourish.
Many of his maps were based on the work of Vincenzo Coronelli, the Italian cartographer and of another French geographer, Sieur de Tillemon (Nicholas de Tralage). His most notable work was the publication in 1696 of a World Map on one sheet based on J. D. Cassini's 24-ft planisphere housed in the Paris Observatory.
His son JEAN BAPTISTE NOLIN (1686-1762), continued the business for many years and prepared an Atlas General which was published posthumously in 1783.
