Image Title

:  L'Amerique septentrionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens / par G. De L'Isle, geographe ; N. Guerard, im. et fec.

Creator

: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726  -- Geographer (not in Relator list)

Additional Name(s)

: Guérard, Nicolas, ca. 1648-1719  -- Cartographer

Published Date

: 1700 [i.e. 1708]

Item Physical Description

: 1 map : hand col. ; 44 x 61 cm.

Notes

: Originally L'Isle lived at the Rue des Canettes prez de St. Sulpice, in Paris; and the first issue of this map bears that location. About 1708 he moved to the address given on this map. Therefore, this map must have been issued in 1708 or later. See Map Collector's Circle, no. 33, p. 6. Note 2.) "Avec Privilege du Roy pour 20 ans." Note 3.) Includes "Avertissement." Note 4.) National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. Note 5.) NYPL copy has written in ink in upper right corner: 10. Note 6.) Relief shown pictorially.

Standard Reference

: Tooley, R.V. Mapping of America, p. 19, no. 30

Source

: Maps of North America. / Whole

Location

: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

Catalog Call Number

: Map Div. 01-5368 [Filed with North America, 1700, as originally cataloged in NYPL Dictionary Catalog of the Map Division]

Digital ID

: 434085

Record ID

: 252938

Digital Item Published

: 2-3-2004; updated 3-25-2011