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A New Map of the Country of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi, in North America discovered by Mons. de la Salle in the years 1681 and 1686 and all of [?] and other rivers before unknown falling into the Bay of St. Lewis, by the [?] who performed that voyage 1713

Description: Kashnor notes, "The first map or plate to show Niagara Falls." This is a lithographic reproduction of La Hanton's map, production date unknown. Vignette: Niagara Falls. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 588.
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Call number: 105:588 M
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A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans. Dedicated to his Highness William Duke of Gloucester
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Kashnor notes, "Shows all the American Continent, with the North-West Coast reaching above California, which is represented as an island." On North America, "This Continent with the adjoining Islands is generally supposed to have been Anciently unknown thought there are not wanting some, who will have even the Continent its self to be no other than the Insula Atlantis of the Ancients." Kashnor dates as 1698, Shirley dates 1700-01. This is the first world map in Wells' atlas, see also 093:047M for another copy. 093:198M is the second similar map from the same atlas, per Shirley. Folder contains reproduction copy. Cartouche of Britannia and coat-of-arms. Vignette of Radcliffe Camera of Oxford, student and teacher, sailing ships at new lands. . Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Watermark: WAH. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettes. References: Shirley 608, BM Maps, Vol. 15, col 33 38e.1; Phillips 531; Wagner 467..
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