L'Amerique Meridionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de L'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens

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L'Amerique Meridionale

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Title:
L'Amerique Meridionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de L'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens
Title (alt.):
America Meridionalis in suas praecipuas partes divisa, ad usum Serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis
Cartographer:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Engraver:
Guérard, Nicholas
Publisher:
Cóvens et Mortier
Name on Item:
par G. de L'Isle
Date:
[ca. 1730]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:
South America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
South America
South America
Extent:
1 map : hand color ; 44 x 57 cm, on sheet 54 x 68 cm
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
A Amsterdam : Chez I. Cóvens & C. Mortier, avec privilege
Scale:
Scale approximately 1:18,500,000
Language:
French
Latin
Notes:
Dated in line with R.V. Tooley.
Prime meridian: [Ferro].
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes cities, rivers, sea routes and mountain ranges.
Appeared in G. de L'Isle's "Atlas Nouveau" [1730] by J. Covens and C. Mortier.
Includes decorative title cartouche engraved by N. Guerard depicting Neptune and an Indian.
Shows the tracks and dates of Drake, Olivier, Mendana, Le Maire, Magellan and Sarmiento.
Map in French. Additional title in Latin above map.
Notes (citation):
Tooley, R.V., The mapping of America, number 68 (page 26)
Adonias, I., A cartografia da região Amazônica, page 257
Shirley, R., Maps in the atlases of the British Library, volume 1, T.COV-1a (page 446)
Koeman, C., Atlantes Neerlandici, volume II, 1969, number 4 in entry C&M 3 (page 52) and number 45 in entry C&M 4 (page 53)
British Museum, Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829
Identifier:
06_01_016802
Call #:
G5200 1730 .L57
Barcode:
39999085952388