This is a charming little map of North America with California as an island embellished with a strapwork title cartouche. California is shown with an indented northern coastline in the Foxe form. The detached coastline to the northwest of California is named Terre de Iesso, rather than reflecting Sanson's earlier belief that it was an extension of the American continent. The R. de Nort drains into the Gulf of California from a large interior lake in the country of Les Apaches. The two western-most Great Lakes are left open-ended and Lake Erie remains unnamed. Engraved by A. d'Winter. This is the second state with a peninsula inserted northeast of California, the Carolinas attributed to the French, and N. Iork added below N. Amstredam.

References: Burden #545; McLaughlin #91.

Condition: B+

A dark impression on watermarked paper. Issued folding with light soiling and a professionally repaired tear in bottom blank margin.