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Document Type

StillImage

Contributing Institution

Maine State Archives

Identifier

BMC-14, p. 37

Description

L'Amerique septentrionale...dressée sur les observations de mrs. de L'Academie royale des sciences & quelques autres & sur les memoires les plus recens par G. de L'Isle.

(Title in upper margin:) America Septentrionalis in suas praecipuas partes divisa, ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis. (1742)

Cornelius Mortier and Johannes Covens' re-engraved and nearly identical verison of D'Isle's map of North America. Shows routes of Cortez, Gaetan, Drake, Medana and Olivier in the Pacific. Extends east to the Azores. Illustrated title cartouche.

Broad Creation Date

1742

Dimensions

39 x 55 cm

Language

French; Latin

Keywords

Cartography; Maps

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