
Sanson's map of North America, Calif. an island
Description
Title: Amerique Septentrionale
Author: Sanson, Guillaume
Description: Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline (later); colored cartouche. 39.8x55.8 cm. (15¾x22").Guillaume Sanson's new map of North America, based on the 1666 wall map of his father Nicolas Sanson (who passed away in 1667), introduced into the atlas "Carte Generales de toutes les parties du Monde" as a replacement for the outdated map of 1650. California is still an island, but there are added placenames, a different configuration to the northern coast of California, Iceland and Britain are present in the Atlantic, etc. Burden 404; Leighly 53; McLaughlin 45; Tooley 9; Wagner NW Coast 399.
Heading: zzgPlace Published: Paris
Publisher: Chez Pierre Mariette
Date Published: 1669
Author: Sanson, Guillaume
Description: Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline (later); colored cartouche. 39.8x55.8 cm. (15¾x22").Guillaume Sanson's new map of North America, based on the 1666 wall map of his father Nicolas Sanson (who passed away in 1667), introduced into the atlas "Carte Generales de toutes les parties du Monde" as a replacement for the outdated map of 1650. California is still an island, but there are added placenames, a different configuration to the northern coast of California, Iceland and Britain are present in the Atlantic, etc. Burden 404; Leighly 53; McLaughlin 45; Tooley 9; Wagner NW Coast 399.
Heading: zzgPlace Published: Paris
Publisher: Chez Pierre Mariette
Date Published: 1669
Condition
One expert and all but invisible repair slightly affecting only two longitude lines in the arctic, else fine.
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Sanson's map of North America, Calif. an island
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