Lower portion of California is shown and labeled CALIFORNIA I. Shape of California is unusual, with wide central area coming to a point at the south. Includes region of Amazon River northward to Maryland. Inset map: The Isles of CAPE VERD (top right). Sabin 18373. Issued in his: Nouveau voyage autour du monde. Tome Premier [bound with Tome II] / Par Guillaume Dampier. -- A Amsterdam : Chez Paul Marret, M.DC.XCVIII (1698). [2],616, [4]p., 6 maps, 7 illus., 15.5 cm. In French, with title CARTE De La PARTIE DU MILIEUDE L’AMERIQUE. California unchanged, except labeled CALIFORNIE I. Title cartouche of scrollwork (top left). Inset map entitled: Isles DU CAP[E]. VERD (top left). Pag: 17. (top right, outside border).
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