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Description

Type of resource cartographic
Extent 37.4 x 53.7 cm.; 39 x 55.1 cm. including border.
Place A Paris
Publisher Chez l'Auteur et chez Pierre Mariette
Date created 1650
Map data [ca. 1:21,000,000]. ; spherical W 173°00ʹ --W 10°00ʹ/N 84°00ʹ --N 7°10ʹ

Creators/Contributors

Creator Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667

Subjects

Subject California as an island > Maps
Subject North America > Maps
Genre Map
Genre Digital maps
Genre Early maps

Bibliographic information

State 3 Suggestion of coastline to northwest of California; latitudes and longitudes are numbered every 5 deg.; place names Anian, Quivira, and Nouvelle Albion have been erased from plate; the Azores are included; Lake Ontario is shaded.
References Wagner 360; Wheat 47; Tooley 7(Plate 29); Leighly 20 (Plate VII); BN Sanson V A(85); Burden 294 (Plate 294); UCB; TMC 12 (p.33).
Note California as an island with flat northern coast sloping up to east. Blank to north. First map to show all 5 Great Lakes, which are open-ended to the west. The first map to name Lakes Superior and Ontario. Decorative title cartouche of fruit on ribbon (top right). Engraved by: Peyrounin sculp. (lower right).
Statement of responsibility Par N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geog. du Roy.
Original McLaughlin Book Number (1995 edition) 12
Original McLaughlin book number (1995 edition) with latest state information 12-03
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/dz200tm6474

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The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island

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