L´Asie diviseé em ses Principales Regions, et ou se peuvent voir l´estendu des Empires Monachies,Royaumes, et Estats...

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Original antique copper engraving, hand colored in outline.A fine example of a strong impression of this very large map. This issue is published and printed at Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam 1705. This large map, printed from two plates, was first published in the 'Atlas Noveau...' by Alexis Hubert Jaillot & N. Sanson. The area extends from Italy in the west of the map to New Guinea in the east. In the right upper corner ornated with a large highly decorative allegoric title-cartouche. This large map by the French cartographer Alexis-Hubert Jaillot impresses by its details in place names, engraved mountains and rivers. Hubert Jaillot's map can be treated as a masterpiece of the French baroque cartography in the 17th century. It took Nicolaus Sanson and Hubert Jaillot a period of about fifteen years to complete this enormous work (c. 1681-96). The atlas was dedicated to Ludwig XIV. This map was published in the edition by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam ca. 1700/05.