California as a large island labeled Californie I. and with indented northern coast and no place names. Great Lakes are incomplete. Virginie, Floride, and Quivira are named on the continent Amerique. Title above the map and without border. P. Garniere Sculp. Issued in: Le Parfait Geographe, ou l’art d’apprendre aisement la geographie et l’histoire, par demandes et par reponses, Tome Second / M. Le Coq. -- A Paris, Chez Pierre et Imbert DeBats, ruë Saint Iacques, prés la Fontaine Saint Severin, à Saint François, M.DC.XCV. (1695). Book is dedicated to Monseigneur Le Chancelier. Unknown if map appeared in first edition. Issued with western hemisphere map showing California as an island (Entry 505).
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