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L'Amerique Septentrionale, Dresée sur les Observations de. Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens / Par G. de l'Isle Geographe
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L'Amerique Septentrionale, Dresée sur les Observations de. Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens
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Kashnor notes, " Shows the Gulf of California reaching only as far north as the Bona Guia River, the north-west coast has its limit at Cap Mendocin. It locates the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Port de Drak and New Albion, and also the tracks of Cortez, Drake, Olivier, Mendana and Gaetana. One of the best maps to show the geographical knowledge of California at the beginning of the 18th century." George Carhart of Osher Map Library confirms this map to be state 2, published in [1701]. See 093:160M for a later version of this map. Cartouche and figured scale bar. Includes Avertissement.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues, various. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Chained Maltese cross. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheFigures . Verso Text: MS notes: 72 (on folded left edge); 159 Mus. Bk St. 93/159 25.
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L'Amerique Meridionale : Dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens / par N. Sanson
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This is Sanson's version of famous de l'Isle map with South America curving west. See 093:610 or RB 295821. Kashnor dates as ca. 1680, but de l'Isle's map preceded this one. Kashnor notes, "Shows the Argentine provinces as "Provinces de Rio de la Plata." Cartouche: Figures & scrolling. MS note: No. 1 (upper left). Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 631.
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L'Amerique Meridionale Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens Par G. de l'Isle Geographe
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Famous de l'Isle map with South America curving west. See 093:631 for Sanson's copy of this map. Cartouche: Figures & scrolling.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Chained maltese cross. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS notes: 610 29.
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Mappe-Monde Dresée sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et quelques autres et sur les memoires les plus recens. Par M. de L'Isle
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Kashnor notes, "One of the earliest maps to show California with a continuous coastline, and showing the tracks of St. Antoine [1710], Mandana and Quir, Tasman, and other discoverers." This is a copy of L'Isle's 1700 map (093:180) with added border art, redone cartouche, the tip of South America corrected, the Solomon Islands moved. Kashnor dates as [1720] as does Shirley. This map shows corrections from 105:245 in Siberia, but the east coast of Korea is shown in the manner of the 1700 map. Name corrections in Africa on 105:245 do not appear. Compare with 105:244M dated 1720 with a less westerly trending California peninsula and Frisland no longer shown below Greenland. Route of the Mississippi and shape of Hudson's Bay follow the 1700 map, indicating this map may have been printed before the dated 105:244M copy and before the undated 105:245. Cartouche - figures representing four continents. Four submaps, arctic and antarctic polar views, one centered on Paris, another on Paris antipode. Merman and Mermaid with sailing vessels lower margin.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheSub-maps. References: Shirley 603 (mentioned). Verso Text: MS notes: 181.
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Carte d'Amerique Dressée pour l'usage du Roy / Par Guillaume Delisle premier Geographe de Sa Majesté de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Á Amsterdam Chez Jean Cóvens et Corneille Mortier, Geographes
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Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: L'Amerique.
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Carte d'Asie : dressée pour l'instruction sur ce que les Arabes nous ont laissé de plus éxact de Pays Orienteaux ; sur les routiers et observations des voyageurs Européens ; notamment sur celles de M. Pallas ; assujétie aux observations astronomiques de M.M. de l'Académie Impériale de Petersbourg / par Guil. Delisle et Phil. Buache, Premiers Géographes de l'Academie des Sciences ; nouvellement revue et Augmentée, par Dezauche, Successeur de Srs. Delisle et Phil. Buache
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de L'Isle's map has been "reviewed and augmented" by Dezauche. Dezauche is also the author of the Supplement to the Diderot Encyclopedia where all the maps were found. Submap: Bering Strait & vicinity. Prime meridian: Paris, Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Chained circle. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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