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Author: Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726; Covens et Mortier

Date: 1739

Short Title: Carte d'Amerique.

Publisher: Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier

Type: Atlas Map

Obj Height cm: 50

Obj Width cm: 60

Scale 1: 31,000,000

Note: "Engraved map in outline color. Relief shown pictorially. Shows demarcation line of Pope Alexander VI between Spain and Portuguese territories. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes ""Avertissement"" in draped curtain concerning the projection and scale."

Reference: P-Maps, p. 108; Wagner, 538; Tooley, The Mapping of America, p. 13, no. 4.

World Area: America ; Western Hemisphere

Full Title: Carte d'Amerique, dressee pour l'usage du Roy. Par Guillaume Delisle, premier Geographe de Sa Majeste de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, Geographes. (Title in upper margin:) America accurate in imperia, regna, status & populos divisa, ad usum Ludovici LXV, Galliarum Regis. 1739.

List No: 4638.092

Page No: (87)

Series No: 96

Publication Author: Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726; Covens et Mortier

Pub Date: 1742

Pub Title: Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties su Monde, ou sont exactement remarquees les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques, &c. Par Guillaume de l'Isle. Premier Geographe de sa Majeste. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, sur le Vygendam. (illus. on title page) Socio ditata labore ... J. Wandelaar del. et fecit. (bound with) Inleidinge tot de Geographie ... Door den Heer Sanson d'Abbeville, Ordinaris Geographist des Konings. Te Amsterdam, By Johannes Covens en Cornelis Mortier, Boekverkopers op den Vygendam. Met Privilelgie der Heeren Staaten van Holland en West-Vriesland.

Pub Reference: cf P596; cf Koeman C&M 6; Tooley, Mapping of America p. 4-11; NMM 227, 228.

Pub Note: See note field above.

Pub List No: 4638.000

Pub Type: World Atlas

Pub Maps: 107

Pub Height cm: 55

Pub Width cm: 39

Image No: 4638092

Institution: Rumsey Collection

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