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Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France : et des decouvertes qui y ont été faites
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A seminal and fairly accurate map of the Great Lakes Region, and possibly the first printed map to locate Detroit, founded two years earlier. Also incorporates geography from Lahontan, including th...
A seminal and fairly accurate map of the Great Lakes Region, and possibly the first printed map to locate Detroit, founded two years earlier. Also incorporates geography from Lahontan, including the imaginary features Pays des Gnacsitares and the Riviere Morte.
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- Creator
- Dressée sur plusieurs observations et sur un grand nombre de relations imprimées ou manuscrites ; Par Guillaume del'Isle de l'Academie royale des sciences et premier geographe du roy
- Format
- Maps, Atlases
- Language
- French
- Publication
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- Paris : Chez l'auteur sur le Quai de l'Horloge a l'Aigle d'Or, 1703 [that is, 1718]
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- 1 map : hand color, mounted on cloth ; 50 x 65 cm., on sheet 54 x 73 cm
- OCLC
- ocm05569389, ocn938009451
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Scale [ca. 1:9,000,000]
- Relief shown pictorially.
- Has watermarks.
- Title cartouche engraved by N. Guerard
- State 4 or 5; Imprint of L. Renard Libraire, below publisher statement and above scale, erased from engraving plate with part of "Bourse" still visible, and author identified as "premier géographe du roy."
- Imprint date from R. V. Tooley's French mapping of the Americas, item 38.
- Includes descriptive text.
- Also available on the Internet through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.