L'Amérique Septentrionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie royale des sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens [map] / par G. de L'Isle.

Author
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
  • French
  • Latin
Published/​Created
A Amsterdam : Chez I. Cóvens & C. Mortier, [1742]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:18,500,000] (W 124°30ʹ00ʺ--W 25°00ʹ00ʺ/N 70°00ʹ00ʺ--N 7°00ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map : hand col. ; 43 x 56 cm.

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Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Includes illustrated title cartouche.
  • Shows routes of Cortez, Gaetan, Drake, Medana and Olivier in the Pacific.
  • Prime meridian: Ferro.
  • From: Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde. Amsterdam : Chez Jean Cóvens & Corneille Mortier, [1742].
Language note
In French with added title in Latin.
Provenance
Historic Maps copy is from the estate of N. B. Fox, Class of 1899.
References
Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569
Title in upper margin
  • America Septentrionalis in suas præcipuas partes divisa : ad usum serenissimi Burgundiæ Ducis
OCLC
166637887
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