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Description

Type of resource cartographic
Extent 1 map : 8.9 cm. diam. within 14.5 x 10.5 cm. including border.
Place [Paris]
Date created [1683]
Map data [ca.1:130,000,000] ; Azimuthal Equidistant Polar Projection W 0° --E 0°/N 90° --N 90°

Creators/Contributors

Creator Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?

Subjects

Subject California as an island > Maps
Subject Northern hemisphere > Maps
Genre Map
Genre Digital maps
Genre Early maps

Bibliographic information

State 1 At page top, above map: TERRES ARCTIQUES. [PAGE] 273[,] FIGURE XCIX. [Figure]273 (map top right). Tome I. (page bottom left) and S (page bottom right). Issued in his: Description de l'univers, Tome I, Paris, 1683.
State 2 Issued in his German edition: Beschreibung des ganzen Welt-Kreisses ..., V, Franckfurt, 1684.
State 3 At page top, above map: Das unter den Nord=Pol gelogene Veste Land. Fig. 99. With French title inside border and German title outside border. Issued in his: Description de L’Univers … Chez Jean David Zunner .. Francfurt, 1685. Issued in his German edition: Beschreibung des gantzen weltkreises …, J.A. Jung … Frankfurt am Mayn, 1719.
References LC 3447, 4280; BN Manesson-Mallet I A(100) & I B; Faupel's Americana 91/71
Note Northern hemisphere. Northern part of California shown with nearly flat northern coast. Northwestern coastline of North America starts to extend west near 60 deg. N. Text on verso entitled "Terre de Jesso."
Original McLaughlin Book Number (1995 edition) 82
Original McLaughlin book number (1995 edition) with latest state information 82-01
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/wt855xd4818

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The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island

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