SANSON, N./ MARIETTE, P. - Basse Volhynie ou palatinat de Kiow, tiré entièrement de la grande Ukraine du Sieur le Vasseur de Beauplan / par le Sr. . .

Scarce and fine map after Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (c. 1600 — December 6 1673), who was a French cartographer, engineer and architect. Beauplan served as artillery captain for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army between 1630 and 1647 or 1648.[1][2] He was sent to Ukraine where he served under Stanisław Koniecpolski in 1637–38.
In 1639, Beauplan created the first "descriptive" map of Ukraine. He created a map of Ukraine in 1648 that had detailed border information. By 1654 he was working in Danzig. He created a map with a scale of 1:452,000 and an additional map scaled at 1:1,800,000.
This edition carries the date 1665 and the publishers address "A Paris, chez l'Autheur". Engraved by A. Peyrounin . Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce competition of the Dutch would last until the end of the century. His success was partly owing to the partnership with the publisher Pierre Mariette.
In 1644 the latter had purchased the business of Melchior Tavernier, and helped Sanson with financial support in producing the maps.
In 1657 Pierre Mariette died, however his son, also named Pierre, co-published the following years.