Subject: Colonial North America
Period: 1715 (published)
Publication: Geographie Practique
Color: Hand Color
Size:
10.8 x 7.6 inches
27.4 x 19.3 cm
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 ou Ieco, 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 fourth state which includes a peninsula inserted northeast of California, the Carolinas attributed to the French, N. Iork added below N. Amstredam, and no umlaut over the "Roy" in the title. Published in Nicolas Chemereau's Geographie Practique in 1715.
References: Burden #545; McLaughlin #89-2.
Condition: A
There are some very minor spots confined to the blank margins and two tiny tears along the left edge of the sheet, far from map image, that have been repaired with archival tape. Remnants of hinge tape on verso.