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Mappe-monde=Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique en Deux-Plans-Hemispheres. ou sont exactement remarquées en General Toutes les Parties de la Terre et de l'Eau, suivant les relationes les plus nouvelles

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Title: Mappe-monde=Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique en Deux-Plans-Hemispheres. ou sont exactement remarquées en General Toutes les Parties de la Terre et de l'Eau, suivant les relationes les plus nouvelles
Creator: Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712, creator
Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, cartographer
Contributor: Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712
Date Created and/or Issued: 1691
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
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Description: Kashnor notes, "Shows the Terre de Jesso almost touching California, the then existing idea of the passage between Asia and America. Locates the Terre de Quir, which though out of the longitude, resembles the Northern Coast of Australia. Shows also New Holland and the coast of New Zealand and Van Diemen's Land." Shirtley 550 says this map is the fourth plate of Sanson's original 1674 map and gives atlas source. Cartouches: elaborate upper and lower cartouches with mermen and sea creatures. "Par le Sr. Sanson Geographe Ordinaire du Roy 1691." "Presenté a Monsigneur le Dauphin, Par son tres-humble, tres-obeissant, et tres-fidele servuiteur, Hubert Jaillot." Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. References: Shirley 550, LC 524.. Verso Text: MS note: 148966.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map ; outline col.ed ; 54 x 90 cm., sheet 60 x 94 cm.
Identifier: 148966
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/10357
Language: French
French
Time Period: 1691
Place: World
E 160°
E 160°/N 90°
S 90°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library

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