AMERIQVE SEPTENTRIONALE
- Author(s)
- Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
- Description
- Suggestion of coastline to northwest of California; latitudes and longitudes are numbered every 5 deg.; place names Anian, Quivira, and Nouvelle Albion have been erased from plate; the Azores are included; Lake Ontario is shaded. Wagner 360; Wheat 47; Tooley 7(Plate 29); Leighly 20 (Plate VII); BN Sanson V A(85); Burden 294 (Plate 294); UCB; TMC 12 (p.33). California as an island with flat northern coast sloping up to east. Blank to north. First map to show all 5 Great Lakes, which are open-ended to the west. The first map to name Lakes Superior and Ontario. Decorative title cartouche of fruit on ribbon (top right). Engraved by: Peyrounin sculp. (lower right). Par N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geog. du Roy.
- Publisher
- Chez l'Auteur et chez Pierre Mariette
- Collection
- The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island
- Subject(s)
- California as an island--Maps and North America--Maps
- Held by
- Stanford
- More details at
- https://purl.stanford.edu/dz200tm6474
- Use and reproduction
- Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
- Copyright
- This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
- License
- This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights (Public Domain Mark 1.0).
