Details

Subject(s)

• New Spain—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mexico—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Mexico—1772 [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Prime meridian used is that of Ferro; scale is expressed in an "Escala de 105 leugas [sic] Castillanas de 17 1/2 en grado" beneath the key.
• Note at lower left: "Publié sous le privilége de l'Académie R.le des Sciences de Paris."
• Above this is a note "Depuis l'envoy de cette Carte [in 1768?], le voyage de Mr. [Jean] Chappe [d'Auteroche] à la Californie a procuré des corrections dans la position de différens endroits qu'il est intéressant d'indiquer ici;" there follow coordinates for the correct positions of Nueva Vera Cruz, Mexico City and San José Baja California. These data, especially for the last-named, were taken in the course of observing the 1769 Transit of Venus.
• A key within the title cartouche gives the letters of 6 dioceses of New Spain and explains conventional symbols.
• At center left is the note "Esta costa se hà dispuerto por el unico reconocimiento que se hà hecho de ella en el Año de 1602, por Sebastian Viscayno."

OCLC

723064811

International Standard Recording Code

• HM 2004-21

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