Le Canada : faict par le Sr. de Champlain ou sont la Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Nouvelle Holande, la Nouvelle Svede, la Virginie &c. avec les nations voisines et autres terres nouvellement decouvertes suivant les memoires de P. du Val, geographe du Roy. A Paris. En l'Isle du Palais avec privilege, . 1677. (to accompany) Cartes de geographie par Le Rd. Pere Placide.

• Main Authors: Placide de Sainte-Helene, 1648-1734, Du Val, Pierre, 1619-1683, Champlain, Samuel de
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Melle Du Val 1677
• Subjects: Canada; Northwest Passage; Northwest passage
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Engraved detailed map of Canada, the Great Lakes and Northeastern United States by Samuel de Champlain. Showing political divisions, many place names, the route of the Northwest Passage, rivers and mountains. Includes decorative cartouches, compass rose and index to place names. Relief shown pictorially. Father Placide's "Maps of Geography", collected in an atlas in the early eighteenth century. Including 43 engraved maps, dated 1677-1707. We date the atlas as 1714 based on the date of Placide's portrait. Most of the maps were made by Pierre Duval and reissued in this atlas by Duval's widow and Placide. Title inscribed in a frontispiece signed by Nicolas Guerard, decorated with allegories of religion and geographical instruments, illustrated with a ship returning to port in the lower center. Father Placide de Saint Helena, Augustinian, was the brother-in-law of Pierre Duval, He made his own engraved maps after the death of Pierre Duval. It is likely that he had previously provided maps to Duval, as a handwritten note on his map of Siam reports that this map was first put under the name of Duval because Placide had not not yet received a privilege. Pastoureau p.367-369