"Amerique Septentrionale", Mallet, Alain Manesson

Subject: Colonial North America
Period: 1683 (circa)
Publication: Description de l'Univers
Color: Black & White
Size: 6.2 x 4.6

This charming miniature map depicts the continent with the island of California shown only to about the 40 degrees north. The Great Lakes are open-ended in the west and called Mer Douce, and there is a north-south range of mountains called Mont de Suala. A drape-style cartouche adorns the title. French text on verso.See also lot 852 for Philip Burden's The Mapping of North America that describes this map.

References: Burden #563; McLaughlin #81-2; Pastoureau, MANESSON-MALLET A [624].
Condition: B+
A dark impression on a sheet that has been trimmed to the neatline at right by the bookbinder. There are a couple faint spots.