This richly detailed map, copied from Delisle, provides the most accurate rendering of the Great Lakes of the time, with the lakes fully enclosed and properly placed in longitude and latitude. The map is largely based on the reports of Lahontan, Louis Hennepin, Jean Franquelin, and Louis Jolliet. It depicts the Riviere Longue stretching westward with a notation concerning the possibility of a navigable passage to the Pacific. The large French text inset (Remarque Historique) tells the story of the discovery of Canada by fishermen from Brittany who were shipwrecked in 1504. The expeditions of Verazzano and Cabot are also mentioned. This example is accompanied by 8 pages of French text, "Dissertation sur le Canada, ou la Nouvelle France."

References: Kershaw #334; Phillips (Atlases) #548.

Condition: A

A sharp impression on a bright sheet with a Strasbourg bend & lily watermark and minor soiling that is mostly confined to the margins.