Fine small version of Sanson's important map of Chili showing the Cuyo provinces. The map is based on the descriptions of Chilean-born Jesuit Alfonso de Ovalle, and is completed by a graceful title cartouche.

Sanson's small maps from his L'Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes..., first published in 1657 and engraved by A. Peyrounin, were copied several times by various map publishers. Johann David Zunners made copies of Sanson's maps for his German translation of Die Gantze Erd-Kugel in 1679. Johannes Ribbius and Simon de Vries published copies in 1682 and 1683, with new maps engraved by Antoine d'Winter. The plates were later sold to Francois Halma, who used them in 1699 and then again in 1705 with the titles re-engraved in Dutch. The titles on the d'Winter plates were re-engraved back into French, and then used by Nicholas Chemereau in 1715 and by Henri du Sauzet in 1738.

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Condition: B+

There is minor soiling, a pair of small worm holes in an unengraved area at left, and light toning primarily confined to the blank margins. An edge tear that just crosses into the border at top left has been repaired with archival materials on verso.