CARTE TRES CURIEUSE DE LA MER DU SUD, CONTENANT DES REMARQUES NOUVELLES ET TRES UTILES NON SEULEMENT SUR LES PORTS ET ILES DE CETTE MER, Mais aussy sur les Principaux Pays de l'Amerique tant Septentrionale que Meridionale, Avec les Noms & la Route des Voyageurs par qui la decouverte en a été faite. Le tout pour l'intelligence Des Dissertations suivantes

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Issued in his: Atlas historique ou nouvelle introduction a l'histoire... , Tome VI, Amsterdam, 1719. Reissued 1732.Copy of Fer's map of 1713 entitled "Carte de la mer du Sud & de la mer du Nord..." Top sheet of north of equator, showing California as an island with many coastal place names on second Sanson model with indented northern coast. Detroit d'Anian, Terre d'Anian and Agubela de Cato to north. Includes vignettes of beavers, fishing industry, 9 portrait medallions of explorers, and detail of Detroit de Gibraltar and Cap de Bonne Esperance. Routes of explorers are traced on map. Bottom sheet of south of equator, with highly decorative vignettes surrounding maps of Panama, Acapoulco, Lima, Baldive, La Ville de Mexique, La Conception, Rio de la Plata, La Havane, St. Sebastien, and Vera Cruz. Inset: [Islands of the Mariannas] (lower left). [Henri Abraham Chatelaine]. Wagner 511; see Wheat 94; Tooley 80; Leighly 142; BN Cha 7(11).

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Chatelain, Henri Abraham

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Stanford

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

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