North America, Verenigde Staten, Californië, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Antillen en meer.; Henri Chatelain, Delisle - Nouvelle Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale - ca 1720

Adequate margins. Centrefold is as issued. Some stains in the margin. Verso blank. This is Chatelain's re-engraved version of Delisle's foundation map of North America. The cartography is nearly identical to the Delisle map, with California returned to its peninsular position rather than as an island. Mendocin is the farthest northern point on California, and the northwest portion of the continent is left blank. The Great Lakes are well-defined, based on Coronelli. The Mississippi River valley is well developed with recent French settlements. A chart to the right lists the primary divisions of North America with colonial interests, native tribes, and towns. Zacharie Chatelain (d. 1723) was the father of Henri Abraham (1684-1743) and Zacharie Junior (1690-1754) . They worked as a partnership publishing the Atlas Historique, Ou Nouvelle Introduction A L’Histoire … under several different Chatelain imprints, depending on the Chatelain family partnerships at the time of publication. The atlas was published in seven volumes between 1705 and 1720, with a second edition appearing in 1732. The maps were accompanied by information pertaining to cosmography, geography, history, chronology, genealogy, topography, heraldry, and costume of the world.