No land shown to west of California; latitudes and longitudes are numbered every 10 deg.; place names Anian, Quivira, and Nouvelle Albion on northwest quarter of map. 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 unshaded. 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. Issued in his: Cartes generales de toutes les parties due monde..., Paris, 1658.Reissued many times.
