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Auction 124, Lot 69

"Americque Septentrionale par N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geographe du Roy", Sanson, Nicolas

Subject: North America

Period: 1683 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
11 x 7.8 inches
27.9 x 19.8 cm
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This handsome small map is a reduced and revised version of Sanson's folio map of North America (1650). The map presents California as an island, but the coastline to the northwest of California is now named Terre de Iesso, rather than reflecting his earlier belief that it was an extension of the American continent. The R. de Nort drains into the Gulf of California from a large interior lake in the country of Los Apaches. The two westernmost Great Lakes are left open-ended and Lake Erie remains unnamed. Engraved by A. d'Winter.

References: Burden #545; McLaughlin #89-1.

Condition: A

A nice impression on a sound sheet with the centerfold and a couple of light creases reinforced with tissue on the verso.

Estimate: $850 - $950

Sold for: $950

Closed on 5/7/2008

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