Carte D'Amerique divisee en ses Principaux Etats. . . .

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• ARTIST: Jean Baptiste Nolin

• PUBLISHER: A Paris chez Mondhare et Jean rue St. Jean de Beauvais. 1791.

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

  DATE: 1791

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 20 5/8 x 29" (52.3 x 73.7 cm) plus margins.

• DESCRIPTION: The age of exploration is dramatically shown on this rare map with the tracts of many important explorers shown, including Magellan, Mendana, Quiros, Le Maire, Bougainville, Furneaux and Cook. First issued in 1787 by Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet with a slightly different title (Carte d'Amerique divisee en ses principaux Pays Dressee sur les Memoires les plus recents, et sur Differents Voyages). Nolin revised the plate, eliminating the Sea of the West and updating the inset show the discoveries of Captain Cook in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. In North America, the young United States is shown to include Florida and Nova Scotia. In South America a large Paraguay takes in Buenos Aires. The title cartouche features a female personification of America standing on an alligator.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition save for some occasional worm holes. Original outline color.

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• CATEGORIES: Maps