Carte de l'Amerique : Corrigee et augmentee dessus toutes les autres cy devant faictes. L' annee, 1646. (to accompany: Theatre geographique de France . A Paris, Chez Pierre Mariette, M.DC. LIII (1653)).

• Main Author: Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1603-1657
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Chez Pierre Mariette 1646
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic
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Engraved map of America corrected and updated, based upon Jodocus Hondius' map of 1618. With insets of the Arctic and Antarctic. Depicts the entire west coast of North America is erased and replaced with a speculative coastline and called Pays Non Encore Des couverts (lands not yet discovered), California as an island. Map showing countries, regions, major cities, rivers and mountains. Sailing ships, sea monsters, buildings and figures shown pictorially. Relief shown pictorially. Includes title and inset cartouches. Geographical theater of France, containing the maps of its provinces. And those of its borders & adjacent countries. Published in Paris by Pierre Mariette, 1650. Atlas has no title page and index (but supplied in facsimile of the 1653 edition), title provided by cataloger based on Mireille Pastoureau," The French Atlas (16th-17th centuries): Bibliographic Directory and Study ", Paris, 1984. The "Geographic Theater" of Mariette succeeds that of Tavernier of 106 plates, but it offers 60 maps, dated 1627-1646, edited by Pierre-Jean Mariette and engraved by Michel van Lochom, Melchior Tauernier and Abraham Peyrounin, Abraham. This atlas copy composed of 57 maps, lacks maps 41 "Carte de Provence", 42 "Description des Isles de Ste. Margrite & St. Honorat" and 54 "Carte la Savoye". For map 42 see Record #12100.041.