L'Amerique Septentrionale Divisee En Ses Principales Parties ...
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With bold original colour emphasising its presence, this is Pierre Mortier's map of North America from the "Atlas Nouveau" based on Alexis Hubert Jaillot's map, itself with links to Sanson's map. With the date 1692 appearing in both the French title along the top and in the mileage scale at lower left, Burden identifies this map as State 1 in "The Mapping Of North America II" (Jaillot's own map was also still being re-issued at this time). The map shows an island California and indicates six, rather than five, Great Lakes. The aforementioned original colour delineates the territories of the east coast as Nouvelle France (large and dominant), N.Angleterre, N.Suede, Virginie, Floride Francoise and Floride. Decoration surrounds the title cartouche and mileage scale and offers the European reader a glimpse of life across the Atlantic. A spectacular map from a series regarded as one of the most ornate and impressive of any period, in strong colour with just a little offsetting. The history of seventeenth-century European cartography is generally dominated by the Dutch map and atlas publishers whose work is collectively termed as being from "The Golden Age of Cartography", due to the quality of its presentation. However, much of the cartography was dependent on the work of French mapmakers, particularly the influential Nicolas Sanson, whose mid-century publications formed the basis for subsequent publishers. Sanson's work lacked the artistic and decorative elements typifying Dutch output until Alexis Hubert Jaillot's input.
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