COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Covens et Mortier
Author:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Date:
1739
Short Title:
Carte d'Amerique.
Publisher:
Covens & Mortier
Publisher Location:
Amsterdam
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
50
Obj 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
World Area:
Western Hemisphere
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.
List No:
4638.092
Page No:
(87)
Series No:
119
Publication Author:
Covens et Mortier
Publication Author:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Pub Date:
1742
Pub Title:
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.
Pub Reference:
cf P596; cf Koeman C&M 6; Tooley, Mapping of America p. 4-11; NMM 227, 228.
Pub Note:
See note field above.
Pub List No:
4638.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
107
Pub Height cm:
55
Pub Width cm:
39
Image No:
4638092
Authors:
Covens et Mortier; L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Collection:
Rumsey Collection
Link To Source
Carte d'Amerique.
