"Canada", Duval/Beer

Subject: Colonial Northeast United States & Canada
Period: 1661 (circa)
Publication: Le Monde ou la Geographie Universelle
Color: Hand Color
Size: 3.8 x 4.8

This little map is derived from Sanson's influential Le Canada ou Nouvelle France of 1656. The map is centered on the French possessions in North America with emphasis on the Great Lakes. Lake Superior and Michigan (Lac des puants) are shown with open-ended western shores and Lake Erie (Lac du Chat) is located too far south. In northern Canada, a sea route is shown through the northwest part of Hudson Bay. The British, Dutch and Swedish colonies are depicted along the eastern seaboard from Virginia to Newfoundland (I. de Terre Neuve). This is the second state with tribal names added in the west. Pierre Duval was Nicolas Sanson's nephew and pupil. He published a wide range of atlases and individual maps including a fine miniature world geography with many of the maps based on Sanson.See also lot 713 for Philip Burden's excellent reference work, The Mapping of North America, and lot 715 for Geoffrey King's Miniature Antique Maps that both discuss this map.

References: Burden #351; Kershaw #140; McCorkle #661.1; King (2nd ed) pp. 132-135; Pastoureau, Duval XI A [7].
Condition: A
Contemporary outline color. Slight soil in margins with faint stain in right border.