Heading: (North America)
Author: Seale, Richard William
Title: A Map of North America with the European Settlements & whatever else is remarkable in ye West Indies, from the latest and best Observations
Place Published: [London]
Publisher:
Date Published: [1745]
Description: Copper-engraved map, later hand-coloring. 37.5x46.8 cm (14¾x18¼").Well-engraved map of North America, with California an island with an indented northern coast. Tooley remarks, "California presented as an island with a mountainous chain down the centre with two named M. Nevada & Mt St. Marti, and 6 towns marked, Canot, St Nicholas, St Juan, St. Isidore, Gigante, and Na Sa de la Guada. Seale engraved maps for Tindal's Continuation of Rapin's History of England, 1744-1747." This is one of the last maps to portray California as an island, executed just two years before King Ferdinand VII decreed that California was not an island. The detail on the east coast is great, and fairly accurate, in contrast to the ignorance of the west. Leighly 173, Plate 23; McLaughlin 228; Tooley 97.

Some faint offsetting to the Atlantic Ocean, very good or better, an attractive example.