Prime meridian: Canary Islands. Wagner 414; Wheat 60; Tooley 43; Leighly 68; BN DUVAL II E(18). Includes partial coastlines of Nouvelle Zelande, Isles de la Terre Australe reconnües l'an 1570 par Fernandes Gallego, and Terre d'Antoine Diemens. Text to map left: Routes des Europeens, vers les Indes Occidentales. Title at map top. Large, decorative cartouche has explanation of abbreviations and symbols used throughout map. (bottom left). Issued as a set with 3 other maps entitled "L'Amerique suivant les dernieres relations, avec les routes que l'on tient pour les Indes occidentales : Le Nouveau Mexique et la Terre de Iesso", "Le Perou, le Chili, la Magellanique la Plata et le Bresil", and "La Mer de Nort ou sont la L[ouvel]le France, la Floride, la N[ouel]le Espagne les isles et la Terre Ferme d'Amerique". Issued in: Cartes de geographie les plus nouvelles et les plus fideles, avec leurs divisions regulieres ... / par Du-Val, 1679. Par P. Du-val Geographe ordinaire du Roy.
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