Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des grandes rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi aujour d'hui S. Louis, aux environs des-quelles se trouvent les etats, païs, nations, peuples &c. de la Floride, de la Louisiane, de la Virginie, de la Marie-Lande, de la Pensilvanie, du Nouveau Jersay, de la Nouvelle Yorck, de la Nouv. Angleterre, de l'Acadie, du Canada, des Esquimaux, des Hurons, des Iroquois, des Ilinois &c. et de la grande ile de Terre Neuve : dressee sur les memoires les plus nouveaux recueillis pour l'etablissement de la Compagnie Françoise Occident. Tom. VI. No. 23. Page 90. (to accompany) Atlas Historique . Tome VI. A Amsterdam, chez L'Honore & Chatelain Libraires. M DCC XIX (1719).
Engraved folded map, depiction of the Mississippi Delta and Mobile Bay, based upon the 1699 voyage of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Shows New England and eastern Canada. Includes plan and views of Quebec in decorative cartouche. Map is filled with engraved wildlife, scenes of Indians hunting, In...
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| Summary: | Engraved folded map, depiction of the Mississippi Delta and Mobile Bay, based upon the 1699 voyage of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Shows New England and eastern Canada. Includes plan and views of Quebec in decorative cartouche. Map is filled with engraved wildlife, scenes of Indians hunting, Indian villages, numerous ships, canoes and sea monsters and notations. First edition of this Historical atlas of the world, with new introduction to history and chronology and updated maps, in 7 volumes, dated 1714-1720. By Henri Abraham Chatelain and descriptive text for volumes I-VI, by Nicolas Gueudeville. Include 308 maps, views and charts, some folded, some double page. Vol. 1-2, 4-5 and 7 have added illustrated title-pages. Vol. 2-3, nouvelle. edition, 1720; Vol. 2 called "Tome II, Premiere partie". Vol. 3 called "Tome II, seconde partie." Vol. 7 has title: Supplement a l’Atlas historique . avec des dissertations sur chaque sujet, par mr. H.P. Limiers . Tome VII & dernier. Volumes 1-6 covers: T. I. Grece, Romaine, Italie, France, Espagne, Provinces-Unies. T. II. Allemagne, Prusse, Hongrie, Boheme. T. III. Grande Bretagne, Irlande, Suisse, Savoye, Lorraine, Venise. T. IV. Dannemarck, Suede, Pologne, Moscovie, Turquie. T. V. Asie. T. VI. Afrique. Volumes are bound in brown leather covers with gold-embossed on spine and title "Atlas Historique Tom ." stamped in gold. "Henri Abraham Chatelain, whose "Atlas Historique" was one of the most expansive Dutch encyclopedias of the age. First published in 1705, Chatelain's Atlas Historique was part of an immense seven-volume encyclopedia. Although the main focus of the text was geography, the work also included a wealth of historical, political, and genealogical information. The text was compiled by Nicholas Gueudeville and Garillon with a supplement by H.P. de Limiers and the maps were engraved by Chatelain, primarily after maps by De L'Isle. The maps were accompanied by information pertaining to cosmography, geography, history, chronology, genealogy, topography, heraldry, ... |
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