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Title
L'Amerique Septentrionale Dressee sur les Observations de Mes
Honnold/Mudd Library Map Collection
Alternative Title
L'Amerique Septentrionale Dressee sur les Observations de Mes. De L'Academie Royale des Sciences… America Septentrionalis in Suas Praecipuas Partes Divisa, ad usum Serenissumu Burgundiae Ducis.
Creator
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Contributor
Cóvens et Mortier
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1745
Publication Information
Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Maps and Mapping at The Claremont Colleges
Rights Information
For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Description
Shows the routes of several explorers including Cortez, Gaetan, Drake, Medana, and Olivier. Northwestern North America is left blank. Native American tribes are noted, as well as an interesting configuration of the Great Lakes.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
mam00088.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll14/id/115
Language
French
Subject
Canada - Maps
Cartography
Cartouche
Explorers
Explorers - America
Hydrography
Maps
North America - Description and travel
North America - History
North America - Maps
North America - Maps - Early works to 1800
Northwest Passage
Voyages and travels
Voyages and travels - Early works to 1800
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547
Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596
Mendaña de Neira, Alvaro de, 1542?-1595
Indians of North America
Native American tribes
Place
North America
Source
Original map, 62.5 x 52 cm: Honnold/Mudd Library map collection, folder 4:3, Maps-North America
Relation
Maps and Mapping at The Claremont Colleges - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll14

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