Carte du Mexique ou de la Nlle. Espagne contenant aussi le Nouveau Mexique, la Californie, avec une partie des pays adjacents - UC Berkeley GeoData

Carte du Mexique ou de la Nlle. Espagne contenant aussi le Nouveau Mexique, la Californie, avec une partie des pays adjacents

Description:

projettée et assujettie au ciel par Mr. Bonne. California shown as an island with a rounded northern coast. Depicts small islands between California and the North American continent. Prime meridian [Ferro]. Relief shown pictorially. Title cartouche (lower left) with floral motif. Upper left and right corners: "XXXVI" and "C32" Lower left corner, inside neatline: "Arrivet, inv. & sculp." Inside cartouche: "A PARIS Chez Laltre, rue St. Jaques, a la Tille de Bordeaux. avec. Privd." A known forgery. There is evidence of a change in the plate in order to create California as an island. The map maker R. Bonne (1727-1794) lived later than the date on the map.

Creator:

Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794 and Arrivet, J, active 1764-1786

Publisher:

[Rigobert] Bonne

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Date Issued:

1701

Spatial Coverage:

Mexico, Gulf Coast (U.S.), and California

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.

Rights Holder:

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

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/wx967hk6916