Carte Generale de Toutes Les Costes Du Monde et Les Pays Nouvellement Decouvert, Dresse sur les Relations les Plus Nouvelles Et Principalement sur la Carte que Monsieur N Witsen, a done au Public.

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• ARTIST: Pierre Mortier

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

  DATE: 1693-c.1703.

• EDITION SIZE: Two sheets joined. Image size 23 1/4 x 35 3/4" (59 x 90.7 cm) plus margins.

• DESCRIPTION: A fine large map of the world on Mercator's projection. Mortier originally issued this map in 1693 and appeared in his monumental atlas "Le Neptune Francois". The map was updated in c.1700, the Hudson's Bay area has been redrawn and now shows three large islands and a sea channel or "Mer Glaciale" now connects Hudson's Bay to the Pacific through the Strait of Anian. California is shown as an Island and Australia and New Zealand are only partially delineated.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition. Side margins and a small section of the outer neat line added. Attractive 20th century hand coloring.

• REFERENCE: Shirley, "Mapping of the World" #559. (1st state)

• CATEGORIES: Maps , World, Continents, Polar and Ocean Charts , World Maps