PIEDMONT & SAVOIE LES ETATS DE SAVOYE ET DE PIEMONT
£595
Very attractive and uncommon map of the region from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean.
Large map as 2 sheets joined. Very impressive map.
Insets: Plan of Turin; view of Verrua; plan of Vercelli. Four smaller fortification plans and one view of Chamberry are part of the cartouche. Excellent hand colour.
Very good condition.
code : M2734
Cartographer : NOLIN Jean Baptiste
Date : 1690c Paris
Size : 62*81 cms
availability : Available
Price : £595
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.
