Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, la Floride, la Virginie, Pensilvanie, Caroline, Nouvelle Angleterre et Nouvelle Yorck, l'Isle de Terre Neuve, la Louisiane, et le cours de la riviere de Misisipi

Containers:

Drawer 122 : L : 8, Section 1b

Creator:

Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720 and Loon, H. v. (Herman van)

Extent:

1 Sheets

Scope and content:

Map of Canada, and the East Coast of America including Florida, Virginia, New York, North and South Carolina, as well as the course of the Mississippi River. The map was engraved by Herman Van Loon and was part of Nicholas de Fer's 'Atlas Curieux'. Includes notes and a list of coordinates for various locations on the right side, as well as locations of various Native American settlements. The cartouche notes that this copy of the map is available from I.F. Benard (Jacques-François Benard), son-in-law of Nicholas de Fer, who took over the business after de Fer's death in 1720. Benard et al continued to sell de Fer's unaltered maps into the 1740s, dating this edition from c.1720-1747, with the original made in 1702.

Language:

French .

Material specific details:

Relief shown pictorially.

Physical facet:

1 map

Dimensions:

41 x 27 cm

Other descriptive data:

Paris: c. 1720-1747

Subjects:

Native Americans -- Settlements
Coasts -- Middle Atlantic States
Coasts -- South Atlantic States
Maps (documents)

Names:

Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720
Loon, H. v. (Herman van)

Places:

North America
Canada

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