L'AMERIQUE, MERIDIONALE, ET SEPTENTRIONALE Dressée selon les dernieres Relations et suivant les Nouvelles Decouvertes dont les points prin= cipaux sont placez sur les Observations de Mrs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences

Description:

Par N. de Fer Dated 1726. Dedication replaced (upper left) with text entitled: Description de l’Amerique et de les principales nations. Cartouche (upper right) with descriptive text. With imprint: A Paris | Chez I.F. Bernard dans | Isle du Palais sur le Quay de | l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale 1726 | Avec Privilege du Roy. (lower right). Wagner 482; Wheat 96; Tooley 60 (Plate 51); Leighly 105 & 161 (State 7); BN FER II C (9); Burden 753. Engraved by: H. van Loon fecit. (lower right). Title cartouche flanked by figures and with vignette of landscape (lower left). California on second Sanson model, with indented northern coast. Agubela de Cato and "Entrée ou Detroit du Nord" to north. Curiosity in Pacific is sketch of caravelles, small sailing vessels used in the Mediterranean.Copied by Petrini, 1718, in Italian (McLaughlin map number 189).

Creator:

Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

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

Theme:

Imagery

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.

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