DE L'ISLE (G.). America septentrionalis concinnata juxta observationes [...] Academiae regalis scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum, et juxta annotationes recentissimas [...] per G. de l'Isle. Augsbourg, carte regravée par Georg-Friedrich Lotten...
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après 1757, 50 x 62 cm, en coloris, beau cartouche gravé, sous passe-partout et cadre en bois. First published in 1700, these early maps were of North and South America by French geographer Guillaume De L’Isle, "perhaps the greatest mapmaker of his time, [...] offered revised and more realistic concepts of both the Mississippi River and the western coast of America than those prevalent in the previous century" (Schwartz et Ehrenberg, 133). "De L'Isle's maps, for example, were the first to show California as a "Peninsula" rather than an Island (Tooley, 19).
