Turkey - Cyprus by Philippe de la Rue. 1665
Philippe de la Rue was a French cartographer of Paris. He worked for Pierre Mariette c. 1650-1660.
Pierre Mariette (1602-1658)
Bookseller, printseller, printer, and publisher, located in the Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris. On February 12, 1644, Pierre Mariette acquired most of Melchior Tavernier's fund. In 1646, he had a series of maps by Blaeu copied and asked Abraham Peyrounin to engrave them. In the meantime, he published the works of Nicolas Sanson. In 1650, he published the atlas Théâtre Géographique de France. A second edition followed in 1653. He later contributed to Sanson's atlas, the Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde. Many maps of Mariette's Théatre appeared in later editions of Sanson's Cartes générales.
Asia Minor.
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Category: Antique maps > Asia > Turkey - Cyprus
Old, antique map of Turkey - Cyprus, by Nicolas & Guillaume Sanson.
Title: Asia Minor.
Auctore Phi[lippo] de la Rue Pari[siense]. Lutetiae Sumptibus Petri Mariette Via Iacobea Sun Insigni Spei. Cum Privil[egio] Regis Christianis[simi]. 1652.
I. Sommer Sculp.
Cartographer: Philippe de la Rue.
Engraver: Jean Sommer.
Date: 1665.
Date on map: 1652.
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Map size: 375 x 535mm (14.76 x 21.06 inches).
Sheet size: 435 x 605mm (17.13 x 23.82 inches).
Verso: Blank.
Condition: Original coloured in outline, backed with paper, some wear at lower centrefold.
Condition Rating: B+.
References: Pastoureau, p. 410 Sanson V B (155)
From: Sanson N. & G. Cartes generales de toutes les parties du monde, ou les empires, monarchies, republiques, estats, peuples, &c. ... Paris, P. Mariette, 1665. (Pastoureau, Sanson V B 1665)
Philippe de la Rue was a French cartographer of Paris. He worked for Pierre Mariette c. 1650-1660.
Pierre Mariette (1602-1658)
Bookseller, printseller, printer, and publisher, located in the Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris. On February 12, 1644, Pierre Mariette acquired most of Melchior Tavernier's fund. In 1646, he had a series of maps by Blaeu copied and asked Abraham Peyrounin to engrave them. In the meantime, he published the works of Nicolas Sanson. In 1650, he published the atlas Théâtre Géographique de France. A second edition followed in 1653. He later contributed to Sanson's atlas, the Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde. Many maps of Mariette's Théatre appeared in later editions of Sanson's Cartes générales.