DE L'ISLE, GUILLAUME. 1675-1726.
DE L'ISLE, GUILLAUME. 1675-1726.
L'Amerique Septentrionale. Paris: c.1708.
Engraved map, hand-colored in outline, 470 x 630 mm. Minor dampstaining at upper margin. Matted and framed.
WITH: Covens & Mortier's similar map after De L'Isle, Amsterdam: c.1737. Hand-colored engraved map. 470 x 580 mm. Matted and framed.
A classic map of the Americas, and the first map to depict California correctly as a peninsula ("le Baja de California"), after being thought previously to be an island.
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DE L'ISLE, GUILLAUME. 1675-1726.
L'Amerique Septentrionale. Paris: c.1708.
Engraved map, hand-colored in outline, 470 x 630 mm. Minor dampstaining at upper margin. Matted and framed.
WITH: Covens & Mortier's similar map after De L'Isle, Amsterdam: c.1737. Hand-colored engraved map. 470 x 580 mm. Matted and framed.
A classic map of the Americas, and the first map to depict California correctly as a peninsula ("le Baja de California"), after being thought previously to be an island.
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