Mexique, Floride, Terres Angloises, Isles Antilles. / Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726; Covens et Mortier / 1722

Mexique, Floride, Terres Angloises, Isles Antilles. Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726; Covens et Mortier, 1722

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Full Title: Carte du Mexique et de la Floride, des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles, du cours et des environs de la Riviere de Mississipi. Dressee sur un grand nombre de memoires principalement sur ceux de Mrs. d'Iberville et le Sueur. Par Guillaume Del'Isle, Geographe de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier. Avec privilege. I. Stemmers Senior sculp. (Title in upper margin:) Tabula geographica Mexicae et Floridae &c. 1722.

Author: Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726; Covens et Mortier

Date: 1722

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Author: Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726; Covens et Mortier

Date: 1722

Short Title: Mexique, Floride, Terres Angloises, Isles Antilles.

Publisher: Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier

Type: Atlas Map

Object Height cm: 49

Object Width cm: 60

Scale 1: 9,000,000

Note: Engraved map in outline color. Shows Indian villages, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Covers area from the Great Lakes to Colombia and from the Gulf of California to Trinidad. "It was the first printed map to portray accurately the course and mouth of the Mississippi River," Martin.

Reference: Cumming, 191; Tooley, Mapping of America, p. 23 no. 51; P-Maps, p.406; Karrow 1-1295. Cf. Lowery, 256. Cf Martin, 14 (1703 ed.); Wheat, 84 (1703 ed.)

World Area: North America ; West Indies

Country: Mexico ; United States

List No: 4638.096

Page No: (91)

Series No: 100

Engraver or Printer: Stemmers, Jan

Published In: Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties su Monde, ou sont exactement remarquees les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques, &c. Par Guillaume de l'Isle. Premier Geographe de sa Majeste. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, sur le Vygendam. (illus. on title page) Socio ditata labore ... J. Wandelaar del. et fecit. (bound with) Inleidinge tot de Geographie ... Door den Heer Sanson d'Abbeville, Ordinaris Geographist des Konings. Te Amsterdam, By Johannes Covens en Cornelis Mortier, Boekverkopers op den Vygendam. Met Privilelgie der Heeren Staaten van Holland en West-Vriesland.

Publication Author: Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726; Covens et Mortier

Publication Date: 1742

Publication Reference: cf P596; cf Koeman C&M 6; Tooley, Mapping of America p. 4-11; NMM 227, 228.

Publication Note: See note field above.

Publication List No: 4638.000

Publication Type: World Atlas

Publication Maps: 107

Publication Height cm: 55

Publication Width cm: 39

Image No: 4638096

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