Detail View: Old Maps Collection: 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 été faite. Le tout pour l'intelligence des disseratations suivantes.

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3687800354077F
Title: 
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 été faite. Le tout pour l'intelligence des disseratations suivantes.
Other Title: 
Saut de Niagara.
Other Title: 
Manege et industrie des castors.
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Chasses aux castors, orignaes et ours.
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Pêche des morues.
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Detroit de Gibaltar.
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Cap de Bonne Esperance.
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Fort du Cap.
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Noms situations, nombres et figure des Isles Marieannes, comme le R.P. Charles le Gobien, de la Compagnie de Jesus les a decrites en 1702.
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B. ou Golfe de Panama.
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Port de Acapoulco.
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Golfe de Mexique.
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Isle de Caillau ou de Lima.
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Baldive.
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La Ville de Mexique.
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La Conception.
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Rio de la Plata.
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La Havane.
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Baye de Rio Janeiro.
Other Title: 
Vera-Cruz.
Contributor: 
Chatelain, Henri Abraham, 1684-1743, cartographer
Category: 
General Maps
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
French
Create Year: 
1719
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 14038 × 8190, 109.9MB
Scale: 
[ca. 1:19,500,000]
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
49 x 88 cm, on sheet 65 x 97 cm
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This is a large map covering the east coast of Asia to the west coasts of Africa and Europe, with primary emphasis on the Pacific Ocean and the Americas, showing trade and exploration routes. It is one of the most spectacular examples of the merge of cartography and graphic art. The map offers a lot of detail in the insets and their surroundings with ornamented cartouches, decorated in the tradition of Dutch cartography, with portraits of explorers, illustrations of indigenous peoples, wildlife, flora, and historical notes. The map provides an amazing graphical depiction of the age of discovery and the character of the New World, embellished with insets and vignettes of various scenes and regions in the New World. The marginal vignettes range from narrative scenes depicting colonial economies based on beaver, cod, and sugar, to geographic insets providing large-scale maps of significant locations, such as the Mississippi Delta, Niagara Falls, the Cape of Good Hope, as well as numerous cities and towns. Although California was depicted as an island on this map, there was a notation indicating that some Europeans believed it was attached to the mainland, making this one of the first European maps to question the myth of California as an island as depicted on many Dutch and English maps since the 1630's.
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Inset 1: Saut de Niagara ; Manege et industrie des castors. - Scale not given. - 11 x 14 cm. -- Inset 2: Chasses aux castors, orignaes et ours. - Scale not given. - 11 x 7 cm. -- Inset 3: Pêche des morues. - Scale not given. - 6 x 7 cm. -- Inset 4: Detroit de Gibaltar. - Scale not given. - 7 x 6 cm. -- Inset 5: Cap de Bonne Esperance. - Scale not given. - 7 x 8 cm. -- Inset 6: Fort du Cap. - Scale not given. - 3 x 3 cm. -- Inset 7: Noms situations, nombres et figure des Isles Marieannes, comme le R.P. Charles le Gobien, de la Compagnie de Jesus les a decrites en 1702. - Scale not given. - 14 x 7 cm. -- Inset 8: B. ou Golfe de Panama. - Scale indeterminable. - 7 x 10 cm. -- Inset 9: Port de Acapoulco. - Scale not given. - 7 x 9 cm. -- Inset 10: Golfe de Mexique. - Scale indeterminable. - 8 x 8 cm. - Inset 11: Isle de Caillau ou de Lima. - Scale not given. - 7 x 7 cm. -- Inset 12: Baldive. - Scale not given. - 9 x 7 cm. -- Inset 13: La Ville de Mexique. - Scale not given. - 7 x 9 cm. -- Inset 14: La Conception. - Scale not given. - 7 x 4 cm. -- Inset 15: Rio de la Plata. - Scale indeterminable. - 6 x 8 cm. -- Inset 16: La Havane. - Scale indeterminable. - 7 x 8 cm. -- Inset 17: Baye de Rio Janeiro. - Scale indeterminable. - 8 x 4 cm. -- Inset 18: Vera-Cruz. - Scale indeterminable. - 7 x 7 cm.
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Original is a copperplate print, watercolor by hand, 77 x 138 cm.
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This is a heavily ornamented map with quite a number of insets. On the upper part of the map there are five drawings of views, there is the Niagara Falls with castors working on dams inside a phytomorphic cartouche with an archer hunting bulls on the left side. On its right there is a cartouche with a hunting scene of beavers, moose and bears; another depicting cod fishing; a view of the Gibraltar Strait and other of the Cape of Good Hope. Still on the upper part, can be seen nine medallions with the portraits of explorers, each with a banderole with their name and deed. There are represented Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512), Fernão de Magalhães (1480-1521), Willem Schouten (1567-1625), Olivier van Noort (1558-1627), Jacques l'Hermite (1582-1624), Francis Drake (ca. 1540-1596), William Dampier (1651-1715) and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687). The bottom part of the map has the most insets and almost all of them decorated with scenes of the places they depict. The Mariana Islands are inside a phytomorphic cartouche with fauna and flora from the island and a depiction of natives swimming on the sea near a sail ship; above the Panama inset can be seen lamas carrying the gold and silver from Lima and Panama; the Port of Acapulco is sided by tress of the region such as banana and cashew trees and above it the scrape of the cassava and the return of the turtles to a beach. The inset of the Golf of Mexico is surrounded by small depictions of the daily life of Canadians, such as burials, marriages, night hunts, meals, etc. Lima is headed by a sugar mill and Bolivia by mines. Around Mexico there is a Mexican native, Mexican burials, sacrifices of war prisoners, the Teotihuacan and a scene of Hernan Cortés (1485-1547) destroying the pagan idols. The River Plate is sided by two explorers one with the coat of arms of Lion and Castille and the other with the coast of arms of Portugal, headed by two natives looking for gold on the river. Havana has a crocodile and a harbor seal, Rio de Janeiro by natives handling cassava and Vera Cruz by the arrival of Hernan Cortés in 1519. All the bottom insets and scenes are carefully separated by phytomorphic motives that depict an extensive number of fauna and flora that can be found on the places depicted.
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The main map has two compass roses with a fleur-de-lis indicating north, colored red, yellow and green. The insets 10 and 15-18 all have a compass rose, also a fleur-de-lis indicating north, colored red and blue on inset 10 and red and yellow on insets 15-18. On sea can be seen 11 sail ships and 3 junks. Insets 9-10 and 15-18 have a scale lines.
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Relief shown pictorially.
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Different continents outlined in different colors.
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Equator line as a longitude line in red and blue interchangeably.
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Lines of Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn in yellow.
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There is a latitude line on the Atlantic Ocean in red and blue interchangeably.
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The four borders of the map with latitude and longitude lines in red and blue interchangeably.
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Map in yellow border outlined in bold fillet.
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Macao in World Maps.
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Macao in Routes.
Reference: 
Nordenskiold, 753.
Geographic Area: 
Pacific Ocean
Geographic Area: 
Atlantic Ocean
Geographic Area: 
United States
Provenance: 
National Library of Australia
Provenance: 
https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1611936
Provenance Call No.: 
MAP RM 73
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991003008949805076