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Kino's influential map of Southwest c.1705

Title: Passage par Terre a la Californie Decouvert par le Rev. Pere Eusebe-Francois Kino Jesuite depuis 1698 jusqu'a 1701...
Author: Kino, Eusebio Francisco
Description: Copper-engraved map. 23.5x21 cm. (9¼x8¼").Kino's important map of the Gulf of California and adjacent land masses, first published in 1705 in Lettres edifiantes (Jesuit Missionary Letters), and reissued in later editions. The Kino map illustrated his discoveries in the Southwest, and demonstrated that California was, after all, not an island. Describing the manuscript map on which it was based, Wheat writes "On this small but influential map, which extends south on the peninsula to Loreto and s. Fran.co Xavier de Bige, and to the Rio de Cinaloa on the Sonora coast, the Gila (termed the R. Hila) is correctly shown flowing westerly into the Colorado River not far from the larger river's mouth... Kino's map exerted a great influence on contemporary cartography, especially after the French mapmaker, Guillaume Delisle, adopted the redoubtable missionary's thesis... A few cartographers continued to show California as an island even to the middle of the eighteenth century, but the myth finally died, thanks to the venturesome spirit of this German Jesuit." Wagner, NW Coast, 483; Wheat, Transmississippi I, pp. 75-76; #89.
Heading: zzgPlace Published: [Paris]
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Date Published: -1705