Subject: Canada
Period: 1771 (dated)
Publication: Atlas Moderne ou collection de Cartes sur toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre
Color: Hand Color
Size:
17 x 11.75 inches
43.2 x 29.8 cm
This is the top sheet of a two-part map covering eastern Canada and Greenland from the bottom of Hudson Bay, northward beyond the Arctic Circle to about 70 deg. N. Latitude. It includes an interesting depiction of a passage between Lake Winnipeg and Hudson Bay alluding to a possible passage to the Pacific. Decorated with a large title cartouche. First state.
References: Kershaw #473.
Condition: A+
Dark impression, good color and large watermark.