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Mappe-Monde=Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique en Deux Plans-Hemispheres, ou sont exactement en General Toutes les Parties de la Terre et de l'Eau, suivant les relations les plus Nouvelles. Par le Sr. Sanson Geographe ordinaire du Roy

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Title: Mappe-Monde=Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique en Deux Plans-Hemispheres, ou sont exactement en General Toutes les Parties de la Terre et de l'Eau, suivant les relations les plus Nouvelles. Par le Sr. Sanson Geographe ordinaire du Roy
Creator: Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712, cartographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1696
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, "Shows California as an island, and inserts 'Terre de Jesso ou Je co' between 40 deg. and 50 deg." This map was originally drawn from Sanson's model in 1674. Since this copy is undated, Shirley suggest it is State 3 of Plate IV, done after 1696. Cordier sc. missing this state. Elaborate cartouche of putti on dolphins, mermen below.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. References: Shirley 462; BL 150.e13; Wagner 409a.. Verso Text: MS note: 246.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map hand col. 54 x 90 cm., sheet 61 x 96 cm.
Identifier: 105:246 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/774
Language: French
French
Subject: World maps
Time Period: ca. 1680
Place: World
W 160°
E 160°/N 90°
S 90°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.

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