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1650's Map of North America UACC PADA

America Settentrional - by Nicolas Sanson, the great seventeenth century French cartographer. 6" x 7" Italian edition of Sanson's famous prototype, showing California as an island, 1650/1656 map of North America, this published in Italy circa 1690. Small decorative title cartouche; upper left corner has "Tom. I". Rather than the more common flat northern California coastline sloping up to the east, this has the much scarcer indented northern coastline with "R. de Eslite" at the tip. McLaughlin & Mayo ("California as an Island") identify editions in French, Dutch and Latin, but none in Italian. There is a light water stain in the upper left corner, and an ink stain in the center of the image and in far right margin.A bit soiled, separation at folds have been reinforced. Matted but unframed. In very good condition.