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Carte tres curieuse de la mer du sud, contenant des remarques nouvelles et tres utiles non seulement sur les ports et iles de cette mer: mais aussy sur les principaux pays de l'Amerique tant Septentrionale que Meridionale, avec les noms & la route des voyageurs par qui la decouverte en a ètè faite [Sheet 1].
Map shows major settlements and coastal details for North and South America, western portions of Europe and Africa and eastern portions of Asia including New Guinea and a hint of "Nouvelle Hollande" [Australia]; sailing routes of explorers; street and structure details on insets. Includes portraits of explorers, illustrations of indigenous peoples, cultural practices, wildlife, flora, historical notes, and ecclesiastical plot ownerships in Havana and Veracruz. Insets: "Manege et Industrie des Castors," "Chasses aux Castors, Originacs et Ours," [9 explorers portraits with text]. "Pêche des Morues," [Detroit de Gibaltar], [Cap de Bonne Esperance], "Fort du Cap," [Isthmus of Panama], [Port de Acapoulco], [Les environs de l'Embouchure de la Rive. de Missisipi], [Lima], [Mexico City], [Baldive], [La Conception], "Rio de la Plata," [La Havane], [Baya de Rio Janeiro], "Vera," "Cruz,"[Mariana Islands]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:20,000,000].
Date:
1719
Creator:
Chatelain, Henri Abraham
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carte tres curieuse de la mer du sud, contenant des remarques nouvelles et tres utiles non seulement sur les ports et iles de cette mer: mais aussy sur les principaux pays de l'Amerique tant Septentrionale que Meridionale, avec les noms & la route des voyageurs par qui la decouverte en a ètè faite [Sheet 2].
Map shows major settlements and coastal details for North and South America, western portions of Europe and Africa and eastern portions of Asia including New Guinea and a hint of "Nouvelle Hollande" [Australia]; sailing routes of explorers; street and structure details on insets. Includes portraits of explorers, illustrations of indigenous peoples, cultural practices, wildlife, flora, historical notes, and ecclesiastical plot ownerships in Havana and Veracruz. Insets: "Manege et Industrie des Castors," "Chasses aux Castors, Originacs et Ours," [9 explorers portraits with text]. "Pêche des Morues," [Detroit de Gibaltar], [Cap de Bonne Esperance], "Fort du Cap," [Isthmus of Panama], [Port de Acapoulco], [Les environs de l'Embouchure de la Rive. de Missisipi], [Lima], [Mexico City], [Baldive], [La Conception], "Rio de la Plata," [La Havane], [Baya de Rio Janeiro], "Vera," "Cruz,"[Mariana Islands]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:20,000,000].
Date:
1719
Creator:
Chatelain, Henri Abraham
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carte des Antilles Françoises et des iles voisines.
Map shows early eighteenth century coastal details, settlements, and physical features in the French Antilles and neighboring Lesser Antilles islands. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date:
1717
Creator:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
System:
The Portal to Texas History