Image / Carte d'Amerique : dresée pour l'usage du Roy / par Guillaume Delisle …

Carte d'Amerique : dresée pour l'usage du Roy / par Guillaume Delisle premier Geographe de Sa Majesté de l'Acadaemie Royale des Sciences

View source image on contributor's website.

Get Citation

Have a question about this item?

Contact Owner

Item information. View source record on contributor's website.

Title: Carte d'Amerique : dresée pour l'usage du Roy / par Guillaume Delisle premier Geographe de Sa Majesté de l'Acadaemie Royale des Sciences
Alternative Title: America accurate in imperia. regna. status & populos divisa ad usum Ludovici XV Galliarum Regis.
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726, cartographer
Contributor: Cóvens et Mortier, publisher
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1739
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, "Includes the west coast of Europe and Africa, and that of North America as far as "Entrée decouvert par Martin d'Aquilar," locating Port S. Francisco, Santa Fe in New Mexico, and showing Louisiana reaching to the Rockies." Alt. title at head of page. See 105:215 for a later version of this map. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 214.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map ; hand col. ; 48 x 61 cm., sheet 57 x 69 cm.
Identifier: 105:214 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/3354
Language: French
French
Latin
Subject: America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Time Period: 1739
Place: World
Western Hemisphere
W 140°
E 10°/N 65°
S 60°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.

About the collections in Calisphere

Learn more about the collections in Calisphere. View our statement on digital primary resources.

Copyright, permissions, and use

If you're wondering about permissions and what you can do with this item, a good starting point is the "rights information" on this page. See our terms of use for more tips.

Share your story

Has Calisphere helped you advance your research, complete a project, or find something meaningful? We'd love to hear about it; please send us a message.