ID 1129802
Lot 181 | Amerique Septentrionale
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
An important map of North America, naming Lakes Superior and Ontario for the first time and depicting California as an island. The first edition was published in 1650 using much original material and detail that Sanson had gleaned from the Jesuit Relations: the annual reports of the missionaries in New France. State 3. Burden 294; McLaughlin 12.
Engraved map, hand-colored in outline, 390 x 560mm sight size (cleaned, some soiling still visible in lower right). Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame).
| Artist: | Nicolas Sanson I (1600 - 1667) |
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| Auction house category: | Maps & Atlases |
| Artist: | Nicolas Sanson I (1600 - 1667) |
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| Auction house category: | Maps & Atlases |
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