(CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND) Group of 10 engraved maps showing

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(CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND.) Group of 10 engraved maps showing the famous cartographic misconception. Sheet sizes and conditions noted. Vp, vd

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Robert de Vaugondy, Didier / Diderot, Denis. Carte de la Californie (5 representations on one sheet); Paris, 1770. Original folds, 13 1/2x17 inches. McLaughlin 241. Anonymous. L'Amerique Septentrionale. Tom: I. Pag: 1. No. 1.; circa 1700. Original folds, 11x13 inches. Tiron, Isaak. Nuova Carta de Polo Artico; Amsterdam, circa 1735. Double-page, hand-colored, minor foxing and edge tears, 14 3/4x17 1/2 inches. McLaughlin 216. Mallet, Allain Manesson. Continent Arctique and Nouveau Continent; Paris, 1683. 8 1/4x5 1/4 inches each, light toning. McLaughlin 82 and 84. Halley, Edmund (after), engraved by Bourgoin le jeune. Tabula Totius Orbis Terrarum; circa 1787. Original folds, 10 3/4x21 inches. Heylyn, Peter. America; London, 1703. Stains, small loss at lower centerfold, 15x18 3/4 inches. McLaughlin 154. De Fer, Antoine (after), engraved by H. Picart. Mathematica [Untitled double-hemispheric world map]; circa 1662. 14x9 inches on a folio sheet of Latin text. Shirley 399. De Fer, Nicolas. Introduction a la Geographie [Title-page with double-hemispheric world map]; Paris, 1712. 7x5 inches. Another copy of the De Fer title-page map with later hand-coloring.