AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE

Description:

“tom 2” with remainder of writing crudely erased (top right, within border.) California as a large island labeled I. DE CALIFORNIE and with indented northern coast and no place names. Western coastline of North America continues north to about 49˚ with a peninsula to California’s north. Great Lakes are complete. B. DE HUDSON is shown, as is a large body of water to its west, with broken coastline, possibly passage westward. Mississippi River is drawn incorrectly entering G. du Mexique at 275 deg. west. Title within simple line border (bottom left). P.G (bottom right, within border). T. Rowlson, correspondence, 1997. Issued in: Le Parfait Geographe, ou methode pour apprendre aise’ment la geographie ... Quatrie’me Edition. / M. Le Coq. -- A Paris ru S. Jacques, Chez Guilleaume Cavelier fils, au Lys d’or. M.DCCXXIII. (1723). Issued with double hemisphere world map (Entry 1007).

Creator:

Ganière, Pierre, 1663-1721

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

California as an island--Maps and North America--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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This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

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

Access Rights:

Public

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JPEG2000

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More details at:

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