Live auction - Lot 643
[Africa]
L'Afrique en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes; & en divers traictes de géographie, et d'histoire.
Paris, Sanson d'Abbeville, 1662
€ 900 / 1.200
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Lot description
4to: [2]-96-[2] pp; 18 pls, partially coloured (some foxing, small stains, dampstain on flylvs).
Cont. calf, gilt stamped spine, marbled paper covers (sl. used, lower joint part. split).
Second edition with all maps identical with the first of 1656, but without the dedication to the French Superintendent of Finances, Nicolas Fouquet, as its publication follows Fouquet's fall from favour. Nicolas Sanson went ahead with the new edition on his own. Ref. Pastoureau [Sanson IB 1662].