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Title: Hemisphere Occidental, dresée en 1720 pouir l'usage particular du Roy
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726, cartographer
Haye, G. de la, engraver
Contributor: Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1724-09-15
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Kashnor notes, "The Gulf of California is shown with a definite coast-line, the outlet of the Colorado. One of the earliest maps to show this. The North-West coast terminates at Cape Blanc. The track of Mendana, Quiros, Tasman and the great voyagers are shown." See also 105:229 for later copy. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Steriographic. Watermark: Chained Maltese cross lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 170.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map ; outline col. ; 49 x 49 cm., sheet 51 x 74 cm.
Identifier: 093:170 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/124
Language: French
French
Subject: America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
Time Period: 1720
Place: World
Western Hemisphere
E 165°
W 18°/N 90°
S 90°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, April, 1924.

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