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Last Name Sanson d’Abbeville

Given Name Nicolas

alt. Names N. S. d'Ab. ; Nicolas Sanson / Sanson the Elder ;

Marriage

Children Nicolas Sanson (1626-1648) ; Adrien Sanson (1xxx-1708) ; ->Guillaume Sanson (1633-1703)

Year born 1600 in Abbeville

Year died 1667

Place of death Paris

Father's occupation

Relatives Pierre Duval (1619-1683) (nephew) ; Pierre Moulard Sanson (1xxx-1730) (grandson) ;

Education

Country of Activity France

Worked for c. 300 single maps and atlasses between 1618 and 1667, among them "La Souabe ou sont les Etats et Souverainétés" (posthumously 1674 published) ; map "Japan" (Paris 1652) ;

Patronage Louis XIII of France (1601-1643) ; Louis XIV of France (1638 -1715) ;

Collaborators cartographer and publisher Alexis Hubert Jaillot (c. 1632-1712), Paris ; Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766) ;

Techniques cartographical drawing and engraving

Sample(s) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sanson#/media/File:Grafschaft_mark_1681_sanson.jpg

Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sanson

Published sources Grees 2002: 30 ; Walter 1994: plates 34, 58, 117 & 118 ;

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