Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties scavoir Les Terres Arcticques, Le Canada ou Le Nouvelle France, Le Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne, Le Nouveau Mexique, Les Isles de Terre Neuve, de Californie, et Antilles. Ou sont distingués les uns des autres, Les Etats, comme ils sont possedés presentement par Les François, Castillans, Anglois. Ou Sont Distingués Les Uns des Autres, Les Estats, comme ils sont possedés presentement par Les FrançSuedois, Danois et Parles Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies ou Hollandois. Tirée des Relations de Toutes ces Nations Parle Sr. Sanson, Geographe ordinarire du Roy. 1696

JAILLOT, Alexis- Hubert (1632-1712)

Published by Pierre Mortier], [Amsterdam, 1696

Copper-engraved map, printed on two sheets joined, period hand-colouring in outline. Backed on linen. Beautifully engraved, quite strong impression of this large, epic map of North America with California as an island. "In many ways Alexis-Hubert Jaillot is seen as the cartographer who continued the endeavor begun by Nicolas Sanson of improving the quality of French mapmaking . [This map] is clearly derived from Guillaume Sanson's Amerique Septentrionale, 1669, itself drawn from Nicolas Sanson's wall map of 1666 . The exquisitely designed cartouche bears the crown and arms of the Dauphin, the heir apparent to the French throne" (Burden, 438). This large scale map was first issued by Jaillot in 1674. By 1690, having had a falling out with the Sanson brothers, Jaillot contracted with Pierre Mortier to re-engrave the plate and the new plate is noticeably more vivid with bolder nomenclature than the French editions though the geography remains the same. The present copy is from the Mortier plate unrecorded in Burden, dated 1696 at the end of the headline title and in the imprint in the scale of miles. The larger scale map reproduces the geography depicted in Jaillot's 1674, a folio-sized map, essentially based on Sanson's mid- 17th century geographic model of North America, in which an assortment of non-French European countries claim the regions that hug the Atlantic coastline, as demonstrated in the names: "N. Suede", "Nouveau Pays Bas" and "N. Angleterre". Virginia has no claimant, but the clearly spelled out "Floride Francoise" asserts a proprietorial claim on what became Georgia, South Carolina and part of North Carolina. The huge parcel of land north and west of the tiny coastal colonies Is assigned to France, and this extends well beyond regions Europeans had any knowledge of. And it is notable that the French gave considerably more respect and attention to the lands of the Native American tribes than other European cartographers of the period, noting the locations of the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin and in the West, the various Apache tribes in and around presend-day Texas and New Mexico. Burden, The Mapping of North America 438, unrecorded Mortier State 2 change of date to 1696. Seller Inventory # 25759

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Title: Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses ...
Publisher: Pierre Mortier], [Amsterdam
Publication Date: 1696