CARTE NOUVELLE DE LA MER DU SUD, dressée par ordre des principaux directeurs, & tirée des Memoires les plus recents et des Relations des Navigateurs les plus Modernes tant de France que d'Espagne, l'on ya joint, diverses remarques curieuses par raport aux decouvertes des Graduations des manierres du Pais que de la Navigation

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Without imprint information; with Mendocin labelled in California; with 'Directeurs' not capitalized in title. With faint grid marks used by the cartographer still visible. With insets: Vignette of waterfall and natives (upper left); Plan du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Esperance, Carte Particuliere du Detroit de Magellan (bottom left), La Ville de Mexico (lower center). Vignette of ships at Fort au Cap de Bonne Esperance within decorative cartouche (bottom right). Blank at top right. With blocked text below inset of 'La Ville de Mexico'; with inset of 'Le Detroit de Gibaltar (top right); and with imprint: -- à Amsterdam sur le Pont de la Bourse au Pescheur. -- uyt gegeven door And: en Hend: de Leth, tot Amsteldam op de Beurs-zluys, in de Visser. With 'Directeurs' capitalized in title. With insets: Vera Cruz, Beye de Rio Janeiro, La Havane (upper left, replacing vignette of waterfall and natives); Baye de Porto Bello, Istme de Panama ou de Darien (bottom left, replacing others), La Ville de Mexico (lower center); and Le Detroit de Gibaltar (top right). With imprint information: -- à Amsterdam sur le Pont de la Bourse au Pescheur. -- uyt gegeven door And: en Hend: de Leth, tot Amsteldam op de Beurs-zluys, in de Visser. Without Mendocin labelled on California.Vignette of ships at Fort au Cap de Bonne Esperance within decorative cartouche (bottom right). Other vignettes and text decorate the map. LC 617; Tooley 94; Leighly 169; Jonathan Potter Catalog, 1992(2397)(State 2); Richard B. Arkway, May 1991,Item#53. Issued in: Atlas sive geographia compendiosa in qva orbis terrarum... -- Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde... , [Map] 117 / R. & J. Ottens, Amsterdam, [1756?]. California as an island with indented northern coast and labelled Les Californie ou Carolines. Detroit d'Anian to north.Based in part on Chatelain's map of 1719, which was based on deFer's map of 1713. According to Koeman, this map never appeared in a deLeth atlas.

Creator:

Leth, Andries de, 1662-1731. and Leth, Hendrik de, 1703-1766

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Stanford

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Maps

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America--Maps and California as an island--Maps

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Imagery

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Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

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