CARTE DE LA MER DU SUD | ET DES COSTES D'AMERQUE ET D'ASIE, SITUEES SUR CETTE MER | CARTE DE LA MER DU NORD | ET DES COSTES D'AMERIQUE, D'EUROPE ET D'AFRIQUE, SITUEES SUR CETTE MER

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Type of resource	cartographic
Extent	1 map : 96 x 189 cm.; 102 x 189.5 cm. including border, on 10 joined and backed sheets.
Place	Paris
Date created	1713
Map data	[ca.1:14,000,000]. ; W 160° --E 20°/N 90° --S 90°

Creator	Par N De Fer Geographe de sa Majesté Catolique avec Privilege du Roy.
Associated with	Fer, Nicolas De

Note	California as an island with indented coastline and labelled Les Californies ou Carolines. Agabela de Cato, Detroit d'Anian and Terre d'Anian to north. Northeastern California is called Coste de S. François Xavier. Pacific Ocean is labelled Mer du Sud, North Atlantic labelled Mer du Nord, and South Atlantic labelled Ocean Meridional.Engraved by: P. Starckman sculpsit (bottom left).Dedication: Dediée a Monseigneur le Comte de Toulouse Louis Alexandre de Bourbon... Within cartouche decorated as fur cape adorned with crest and crown (lower left).Insets: Istme de Panama ou de Darien, Port de Acapoulco, Golfe de Mexique, Lima, Baldive, La Ville de Mexique, La Conception, Rio de la Plata, La Havane, St. Sebastien, and Vera Cruz.Nine oval portraits of navigators divide title at map top. Many sea routes are shown. Many vignettes show native customs and activities, and beavers.Basis for Chatelaine's map of 1719.
Note	Wheat 93; Wagner 506; Tooley 80; see also similar map title in Wagner 501 & 511, Leighly 136 & 142.
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/bf830pb0546

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The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island

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