Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (ca. 1632-1712) was one of the most important French cartographers of the seventeenth century. Jaillot traveled to Paris with his brother, Simon, in 1657, hoping to take advantage of Louis XIV's call to the artists and scientists of France to settle and work in Paris. Originally a sculptor, he married the daughter of Nicholas Berey, Jeanne Berey, in 1664, and went into partnership with Nicholas Sanson's sons. Beginning in 1669, he re-engraved and often enlarged many of Sanson's maps, filling in the gap left by the destruction of the Blaeu's printing establishment in 1672.
An exceptional old color example of this scarce map of the Savoye region, topped by Lake Geneva. The color in this example is truly extraordinary. The map is adorned with a title cartouche decorated with a globe crowned with fleurs de lys and two...
Decorative map of Portugal by Le Père Placide de Sainte-Hélène, the brother-in-law of the famous French mapmaker Pierre Duval. The map provides a large detailed treatment of Portugal, with an inset of the area around Porto on the Douro River.
