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L'Amerique Meridionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens / par G. de L'Isle
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L'Amerique Meridionale : Dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens / par N. Sanson
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This is Sanson's version of famous de l'Isle map with South America curving west. See 093:610 or RB 295821. Kashnor dates as ca. 1680, but de l'Isle's map preceded this one. Kashnor notes, "Shows the Argentine provinces as "Provinces de Rio de la Plata." Cartouche: Figures & scrolling. MS note: No. 1 (upper left). Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 631.
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L'Amerique Meridionale Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens Par G. de l'Isle Geographe
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Famous de l'Isle map with South America curving west. See 093:631 for Sanson's copy of this map. Cartouche: Figures & scrolling.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Chained maltese cross. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS notes: 610 29.
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L'Amerique Septentrionale, Dresée sur les Observations de. Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens / Par G. de l'Isle Geographe
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See 093:159M for an earlier version of this map. MS note: "Born in 1675" ; "Died in 1726" - on either side of L'Isle's name. Cartouche: Mermen. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues, various. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: l'Amerique Septentrionale 93:160 [erased].
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L'Amerique Septentrionale, Dresée sur les Observations de. Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens
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Kashnor notes, " Shows the Gulf of California reaching only as far north as the Bona Guia River, the north-west coast has its limit at Cap Mendocin. It locates the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Port de Drak and New Albion, and also the tracks of Cortez, Drake, Olivier, Mendana and Gaetana. One of the best maps to show the geographical knowledge of California at the beginning of the 18th century." George Carhart of Osher Map Library confirms this map to be state 2, published in [1701]. See 093:160M for a later version of this map. Cartouche and figured scale bar. Includes Avertissement.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues, various. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Chained Maltese cross. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheFigures . Verso Text: MS notes: 72 (on folded left edge); 159 Mus. Bk St. 93/159 25.
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L'Amerique Meridionale : Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs. de L'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les Plus recens / Par G. DeL'Isle
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Catouche: Natives. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: C & H Ionic. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Tabula Americae specialis geographica regni Peru, Brasiliae, Terrae Firmae & Reg. Amazonum : secundum relationes de Herrera, de Laet, & PP. de Acuña & M. Rodriguetz, aliorumque observationes recentiores de signata & edita / per Guiliem. de l'Isle, Geogr. Reg. Parisiensem, nunc recusa
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Homann Heir's version of de Lisle's 1703 map, see 093:682M, 093:686M. Note size differs from L'Isle's map. Homann heirs flourished from ca. 1730. Cartouche: figures, scenery. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Device. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 936.
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