ARTIST: Alexis-Hubert Jaillot
PUBLISHER: Published by Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam.
MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving.
DATE: 1700.
EDITION SIZE: 20 3/8 x 31 3/8" (51.6 x 79.6 cm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: An important and quite beautiful chart of the mid-Atlantic coast line. Shown is an area from Staten Island in New York southward to Carratuck Inlet in North Carolina with the Chesapeake Bay featured prominently. This chart is by A.H. Jaillot, and appeared in the atlas "Suite du Neptune Francois…" This atlas was published by Pierre Mortier for Jaillot. Cartographically, this map is a very close copy of John Thornton & William Fisher's chart of 1689 that appeared in "The English Pilot, The Forth Book," which in turn was largely based on the hugely important and rare Augustine Herrman map. This is a very nice 1st state (of three) example of this scarce chart.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Very good condition, save for some areas of strengthening on the verso due to verdigris, an acidic green pigment. Original outline handcoloring with some modern enhancing.
REFERENCE: Burden, Mapping of North America II, #766; Fig. 23, p. 37 in On the Map, Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay.
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