Subject: Western Hemisphere - America
Period: 1749 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
7 x 8.4 inches
17.8 x 21.3 cm
This is a rare Dutch edition of this interesting map showing the north-south and east-west axes at oblique angles to the continents. In North America, the Pacific Northwest coastline is not delineated and a series of rivers and lakes make up a Northwest Passage. At upper right, inside the neatline is "Pl. IV." The French edition of this map, engraved by Guillaume Delahaye, is given a full-page illustration in Pedley's book on page 94 and is discussed in her chapter "Maps that Illustrate and Teach."
References: cf. Pedley #18.
Condition: A
A crisp impression with marginal foxing.