Lot Essay
Shirley's example of the first catalogued map is dated 1668 with the imprint of Hubert Jaillot, Nicolas Berey's son-in-law, who inherited the stock on Berey's death in 1665.
Details
Val (Pierre du): La Carte Generale du Monde, engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, 390mm. x 530mm., Paris, Chez N. Berey, 1661 [cf. Shirley 443] (repaired with some loss particularly to margins) -- Sanson (Nicolas): Les Deux Poles, engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, 390mm x 530mm., Paris, Chez l'Autheur, 1678 (writen in ink in a contemporary hand); and three other world maps by Châtelain and Sanson. (5)