Price: $795.00
SKU: 56685
ARTIST: Didier Robert de Vaugondy
PUBLISHER: Published by Diderot et d'Alembert, Paris.
MEDIUM: Copper engraving,
DATE: 1770-79.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 11 3/8 x 15 1/8" (29 x 38.6 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Map no. 5 from the supplement to the Diderot and d'Alembert Encyclopaedie, 1770-1779. This famous composite map illustrates conceptions of California over two centuries. From right to left, it shows the California coast as depicted by an Italian map of 1604, Sanson in 1656, Delisle in 1700, Father Kino in 1705, and the Jesuits in 1767. Only Sanson’s map portrays California as an island, although most maps over nearly a hundred-year period did the same. It was the Jesuit priest Kino who proved the island concept false by walking from the mainland to the California coast. But his map was not generally accepted, and in 1747 King Ferdinand VII of Spain was compelled to issue a formal decree that California is not an island.
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CONDITION: Good condition. Black & white.
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