JAILLOT ALEXIS HUBERT Amerique Septentrionale Divisee en Ses

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JAILLOT, ALEXIS-HUBERT. Amerique Septentrionale Divisee en Ses Principales Parties. Double-page engraved map of North America showing California as an island. 20 1/4x24 1/4 inches sheet size, ample margins; original hand-color in outline; lightly toned at sheet edges, few very minor marginal repairs. Paris [but Amsterdam]: Mortier, 1694

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A fine example of seventeenth-century French atlas cartography of North America in attractive original colors. The map has a complicated publishing story: "The Atlas Royal is one of those deceptive works published in Paris but produced in Amsterdam... The work was done under the direction of the successful publisher Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam but the imprint on the title page is of Nicolas de Fer in Paris! ...The map is derived from the earlier work by Jaillot, namely his large map of 1674, but most probably through Mortier's own large version of it published in 1692" (Burden). Despite the knotty bibliographic description, Jaillot's name is all that appears on the map, imprinted Paris, 1694. Burden 700, first state.