Jun 06, 2019 - Sale 2512

Sale 2512 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
DE L'ISLE, GUILLAUME. Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France. Double-page engraved map of eastern Canada and the Great Lakes region with a magnificent figural cartouche. 20 1/2x27 inches sheet size, ample margins; faint original hand-color in outline; deacidified, upper margin replaced. Paris, 1703
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first state of one of the most outstanding maps of Canada from the early 18th century. "De L'Isle's careful research resulted in the first map of Canada to present the whole of the Great Lakes correctly" and the region is shown "much more realistically than in previous maps of Canada" (Kershaw). Notable also as the first appearance of Detroit on a printed map. The imprint of the present example designates De L'Isle's first address of "Rue des Canettes prez de St. Sulpice" as opposed to more commonly seen copies imprinted after the publisher's move to "Quai de l'Horlage a la Couroune de Diamans". Kershaw 308; Schwartz & Ehrenberg plate 80; Tooley, French Mapping 35.