Carte d'Amerique. / Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726; Covens et Mortier / 1739

Carte d'Amerique. Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726; Covens et Mortier, 1739

Carte d'Amerique. / Lisle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726; Covens et Mortier / 1739

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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.

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

Date: 1739

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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

Object Height cm: 50

Object 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

List No: 4638.092

Page No: (87)

Series No: 96

Published In: 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.

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

Publication Date: 1742

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

Publication Note: See note field above.

Publication List No: 4638.000

Publication Type: World Atlas

Publication Maps: 107

Publication Height cm: 55

Publication Width cm: 39

Image No: 4638092

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