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

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 with a flat northern coast. The coastline to the northwest of California is named Terre de Iesso, rather than reflecting Sanson's 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 Les Apaches. The two westernmost Great Lakes are left open-ended and Lake Erie remains unnamed. Engraved by A. d'Winter. This version of Sanson's map was published in a Dutch work on the curious manners, customs, history and linguistics of the peoples of the East and West Indies. This is the first state.

References: Burden #545; McLaughlin #89.

Condition: A

A dark impression on a bright sheet with a few small tears in blank margins that have been professionally repaired on verso.