Carte generale du monde, ou description du monde terrestre & aquatique =

Alternative Title:

Historie des Ouder en Nieuwen Testaments

Description:

I. van Lutchtenberg, delin. et sculpcit.; Chez Pierre Mortier. Avec Privilege. California shown as a labeled island with an indented northern coast and many place names. World map on Mercator's projection. Northwest passage shown from Destroit d'Anian, just north of California, through the Mer Glaciale to Butons Bay. Great Lakes included but not delineated. Five insets sit above the map depicting night and day, the world without water, the phases of the moon, and the western and eastern hemispheres. The small western hemisphere map also depicts California as an island. A similarly-sized derivative, also from the 1730s, was printed by R. & G. Wetstein (Entry 1001). Title outside the border of the map in French and Dutch. Most place names in French; a few in Dutch. Engraved by: I. van Luchtenburg, Delin. et Sculpcit. (lower left). Tom. 1. Pag. 2. (upper right). Issued in Historie des Ouder en Nieuwen Testaments. Amsterdam, 1700.

Creator:

Mortier, Pierre, 1661-1711

Publisher:

Chez Pierre Mortier

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

World maps

Date Issued:

1700

Rights:

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.

Rights Holder:

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License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

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https://purl.stanford.edu/dt360jc3286