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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 133 - closed 9/1/2010
Featuring 741 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #293: "Carte de la Californie" Didier Robert de Vaugondy
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Lot 293 |
These five depictions of California on one sheet present a fascinating cartographic history of California. The first map reproduces Neron Pecci's map of 1604 showing the peninsula with a ragged coastline and place names derived from Cabrillo's voyage of 1542-3. The second map is a detail from Sanson's 1656 map showing the island of California with place names from the voyage of Vizcaino. Map three is from Delisle's map of America in 1700 with the question of California's insularity left open to interpretation. Map four is Kino's important map of 1705 that finally ended the cartographic myth. Lastly, map five is a portion of a Spanish map, showing the Jesuit explorations, that first appeared in Miguel Venegas' Noticia de la California in 1757, and is the first published history of California.
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