"Carte du Gouvernement de l'Amerique", Chatelain, Henry Abraham

A folio sheet filled with fascinating French text, statistics and four engravings showing the Council of the Indies dividing up Spanish Empire in America. The map itself (3.7 x 5.2") shows an unnamed island of California on the Sanson model. The only political detail is the division of the regions between the colonial powers. Far to the south, a purely speculative Antarctic continent is suggested as Terre Inconnue.

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Condition: B+

Issued on paper with a Strasbourg bend and lily watermark. There is light toning and a bit of scattered foxing in the image, and an edge tear in the bottom blank margin has been archivally repaired.