Atlas Nouveau, Contenant Toutes les Parties du Monde...

£40,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

In 1689, the partnership between Jaillot and the Sansons ended; the Sanson sons seem to have been predisposed to assume their partners were cheating them, and the separation was acrimonious. With the end of that partnership, it seems that Jaillot entered into a new partnership with Pieter Mortier (1661-1711) in Amsterdam, to publish a Dutch edition of the Atlas Nouveau , with the title-page and all the maps bearing Jaillot’s Parisian address, and mostly dated 1692. Mortier was of French origin, his grandparents were French refugees who settled in Leiden; his father then settled in Amsterdam in the 1660s. It seems that Mortier served an apprenticeship in Paris between 1681 and 1685, when he reappears in Amsterdam, a member of the booksellers guide, trading at the sign of the City of Paris. Throughout his career he specialised in French books, and seems to have had close relations with the Parisian book-trade. Unfortunately, there is no evidence for the nature of the relationship with Jaillot or, indeed, if there was one. The only records demonstrate that Mortier, in partnership with Marc Huguetan, financed the engraving, printing and publishing of the atlas; but the presence of hitherto unpublished Sanson maps in the Dutch edition points strongly to Jaillot’s involvement. As with the French edition, the contents were fluid, with additional maps added as they were completed. Thus this atlas includes maps of England, Scotland and Ireland, dated 1693. More significantly, this cop

• Year: 1693

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