"Partie Orientale du Canada, avec la Nouvelle Angleterre, l'Acadie, et la Terre-Neuve...", D'Anville/Santini
Subject: Colonial New England & Canada
Period: 1776 (dated)
Publication: Atlas Universel
Color: Hand Color
Size:
23.8 x 19.2 inches
60.5 x 48.8 cm
This large, attractive map covers New England, the St. Laurence River, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. It presents good detail of boundaries, towns and cities, harbors, bays, rivers and lakes, Indian tribal territory, and fishing grounds. Though crediting D'Anville, the map is also partially based on the cartography of Bellin and Robert de Vaugondy. The large cartouche, featuring a ferocious-looking beaver, is copied from Robert de Vaugondy's 1755 map of Canada and the Great Lakes. Second state without pagination.
References: Kershaw #714; McCorkle #776.4; Sellers & Van Ee #138.
Condition: A
A fine impression on watermarked paper with a small faint stain in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
