COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Le Vasseur de Beauplan, Guillaume
Date:
1660
Short Title:
Carte d'Ukranie
Publisher:
Jacques Cailloue
Publisher Location:
Rouen
Type:
Separate Map
Obj Height cm:
42
Obj Width cm:
54
Scale 1:
1,820,000
Note:
See our 8 sheet 1650 edition, 10151.036
Reference:
Librairie Ch. Chadenat, Le Bibliophile américain : catalogue de livres, cartes & documents relatifs a l'Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amérique, Océanie. 1889, p. 60, 26344 : "Carte rarissime" (map of the greatest rarity").
Country:
Ukraine
Country:
Poland
Region:
Crimea
Full Title:
Carte d'Ukranie contenant plusieurs provinces comprises entre les confins de la Moscovie et les limittes de Transilvanie.
List No:
10546.000
Publication Author:
Le Vasseur de Beauplan, Guillaume
Pub Date:
1660
Pub Title:
Carte d'Ukranie contenant plusieurs provinces comprises entre les confins de la Moscovie et les limittes de Transilvanie.
Pub Note:
"Map of Ukraine of the greatest rarity, made by Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan to illustrate his even rarer Description d'Ukranie, published in Rouen by Jacques Cailloue in 1660. It is oriented with north at the bottom, and decorated with three cartouches, including one for the title illustrated with 5 people and the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Poland. A French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect, Beauplan served as an artillery captain for the army of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1637, he was sent to Ukraine, and created in 1639, the first "descriptive" map of Ukraine, of which a first version in one sheet was engraved in 1648, and a second version in 9 sheets in 1650, under the title Delineatio specialis et accurata Ukrainae. He then wrote his Description des contrés du Royaume de Pologne, which was published in 1651, and was renamed Description d'Ukranie, when the second edition was released in 1651. Two more editions were published in 1660 and 1861. This book was the first published that provided a geographical, economic, and demographic description of Ukraine. The edition of 1660 was the first illustrated with the map Carte d'Ukranie. An earlier version of the Carte d'Ukranie was published in 1648 with a different title, Delineatio Generalis Camporum Desertorum vulgo Ukraina. Maps of Ukraine alone being extremely rare, we could not find any single copy of this Rouen 1660 edition in public collections, nor any record in past auctions. Furthermore, in 2008, the Ukrainian Museum of New York organized an exhibition called The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550-1799, and this map was also absent from the collection. After the Rouen edition of Jacques Cailloue in 1660, there were two other editions of this map published with the imprint of Jollain in Paris, including one with no date and one dated 1686. The BnF owns the two Jollain editions, but no copy of this earlier edition of 1660 published by Jacques Cailloue in Rouen. We found another variant of this map with Crimea at the James Ford Bell Library." (Librairie Le Bail, 2020)
Pub List No:
10546.000
Pub Type:
Separate Map
Pub Height cm:
42
Pub Width cm:
54
Image No:
10546000.jp2
Authors:
Le Vasseur de Beauplan, Guillaume
