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Author: DeLisle, Guillaume
Title: Carte Du Canada Ou De La Nouvelle France et des Decouvertes qui y ont été faites Dressée sur plusieurs Observations et sur un grand nombres de Relations imprimés ou manuscrites
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:
Date Published: 1703-
Description:

Engraved map, colored in outline. 50x65 cm (19¾x25½"), backed with linen repairing a few edge tears and chips.

The second issue of one of the seminal maps of Canada, following shortly after the 1703 first issue, though Tooley does not offer a date for this second issue with altered imprint. Tooley notes the first issue as "the first printed map to show Detroit only two years after the founding of that village by Cadillac. Based on the work of Franquelin Joliet and the Jesuits. In this map he gives a superior rendering of the Great Lakes that in his map of N. America of 1700... The title is enclosed within an elaborate cartouche with natives, missionaries &c. top left, designed by N. Guerard." The map extends from Maryland to the northern edge of Baffin's Bay, and from Greenland to west of the Missouri River which region is blank except for Lahontan's Riviere Longue and Lac d'eau salée. The address in the imprint on this second issue reads "sur le Quai de l'Horloge a la Couronne de Diamans," and has the additional imprint, "et se trouve a Amsterdam ches L. Renard Libraire pres de la Bourse."

Provenance: Alta California Books, 1/76

Some soiling/toning to the map, light stain at bottom; rubberstamps of the Bancroft Library at lower corners, withdrawn stamps of verso; about very good.