Cartes Generales de Toutes Les Parties Du Monde. Nicholas Sanson D'Abbevile (1600-1667). Folio (17 2/8 x 12 6/8 inches). Paris: Pierre Mariette, 1665 (But 1667). Title-page with woodcut device, 2-page letterpress list of maps, and two appendices only: Sanson's 'Table alphabetique de toutes les villes . dans la carte d'Italie' (38 pages) and 'Table alphabetique de toutes les . villes . dans la carte du Rein', Paris: 1646 (12 double-pages, blank on verso). 134 double-page engraved maps by Pierre Mariette after Sanson (of a possible 171 listed by Pastoureau), EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a further 62 maps after Sanson and other French and Dutch cartographers, including P. du Val, P. de la Rue, C. Danckerts, J. Jansson, and J. and H. Hondius, all double-page and in a few cases folding, usually hand-coloured in outline, mounted on guards and continuously numbered in manuscript up to 195, including 46 bis (map of Paraguay heavily stained at upper margin, that of southern South America restored with loss to sea area, a few small repairs elsewhere, map of Corsica and Sardinia slightly waterstained, marginal waterstaining affecting several other maps, some browning to additional maps and occasional shaving of borders, lower corners curling slightly through most of the volume). 18th-century English half calf and blue marbled paper boards (joints cracked, extremities rubbed). Published by Paris: Pierre Mariette, 1665 [but 1667].

The maps were compiled by Nicolas Sanson who first published his atlas in 1654, with 100 maps, and engraved and printed by Pierre Mariette; each held the copyright to half of the maps which bear their separate imprints, and were issued progressively from 1630.

Provenance: extensive contemporary manuscript alterations to map list, manuscript numbering; 4-page manuscript 'Table des Cartes' in an 18th-century hand; Foljambe Collection removed from Osberton Hall, with the discreet woodcut library stamp of Francis Ferrand Foljambe (1749 - 1814) at the foot of the title-page, and the foot of the binding, his sale 30th April 2008, lot 99, $77,000