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L'Amerique septentrionale: dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens

Originally L'Isle lived at the Rue des Canettes prez de St. Sulpice, in Paris; and the first issue of this map bears that location. About 1708 he moved to the address given on this map. Therefore, this map must have been issued in 1708 or later. See Map Collector's Circle, no. 33, p. 6.; "Avec Privilege du Roy pour 20 ans."; Includes "Avertissement."; National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.; NYPL copy has written in ink in upper right corner: 10.; Relief shown pictorially.; Citation/Reference: Tooley, R.V. Mapping of America, p. 19, no. 30

Date
1700–1708
Mapmaker / publisher
Scan by NYPL
Place
North America
Archive
New York Public Library (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
chart
Sheets
2
Original size
5,675 × 4,528 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"L'Amerique septentrionale: dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens" (1700–1708). Scan by NYPL. New York Public Library, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%27Amerique_septentrionale_-_dress%C3%A9e_sur_les_observations_de_Mrs._de_l%27Academie_Royale_des_Sciences_%26_quelques_autres,_%26_sur_les_memoires_les_plus_recens_(NYPL_b15315092-434085).jpg

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