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Scarce example of the Nolin - Coronelli map of Scotland, first issued circa 1689 but here printed in 1708.

Good detailed insets of Orkney Shetland & Faroe Isles.

Excellent hand colour

Very good condition

code : M4752

Cartographer : NOLIN Jean Baptiste

Date : 1708 Paris

Size : 46.5*61 cms

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NOLIN, Jean Baptiste

c. 1657-1708

J. B. Nolin set up the family publishing business in Paris in the Rue St Jacques where he engraved and sold a wide variety of maps, on some of which he wrongfully used the titles 'Engraver to the King' and 'Geographer to the Duke of Orleans'. On a complaint by Guillaume Delisle he was accused and convicted of plagiarism but his business continued to flourish.

Many of his maps were based on the work of Vincenzo Coronelli, the Italian cartographer and of another French geographer, Sieur de Tillemon (Nicholas de Tralage). His most notable work was the publication in 1696 of a World Map on one sheet based on J. D. Cassini's 24-ft planisphere housed in the Paris Observatory.

His son JEAN BAPTISTE NOLIN (1686-1762), continued the business for many years and prepared an Atlas General which was published posthumously in 1783.