La Republique de Genes la Principaute de Piemont le Montferrat, et Partie du Duche de Milan.

Large scale map showing the Republic of Genoa, the Principalities of Piedmont, the duchy of Montserrate and southernwestern region of the Duchy of Milan in Northern Italy by Sanson and republished by Jaillot. Rivers, lakes, forest, mountains and major cities and towns are depicted. A decorative title cartouche is at the top right corner, and a cartouche with a distance key is shown at the bottom right corner.
Very brilliant original coloring.
Born in Avignon, Alexis-Hubert Jaillot came to Paris in 1657 with his brother Simon, and both became sculptors. In 1664, Jaillot married the daughter of Nicolas Berey, an established mapmaker, and soon joined his father-in-law in the trade. Within a few years, Jaillot became the successor to Nicolas Sanson, the greatest French mapmaker of the seventeenth century. In 1669, Jaillot undertook the re-engraving, enlarging and re-publishing of the Sanson maps in sheet form and in atlases, sparing no effort to fill the gap in the map trade left by the destruction of Blaeu's printing establishment in Amsterdam in 1672-one of the most productive cartographic establishment in the Netherlands.
Jaillot redrew Sanson's maps with many additions and corrections and fresh embellishments. Jaillot's maps are considered to be among the most decorative ever done. They are justly famed for their large size and baroque ornamentation, and do considerable justice to their maker who was the court geographer to Louis XIV. In 1690, Pierre Mortier began to publish Sanson's and Jaillot's maps from his Amsterdam firm.