LAHONTAN LOUIS ARMAND; BARON de Carte Generale de Canada

Sale 2027 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 1,955

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

LAHONTAN, LOUIS ARMAND; BARON de. Carte Generale de Canada. Engraved folding map, 415x555 mm, ample margins; two folds reinforced on verso at an early date with resultant browning on recto. The Hague, 1703

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The first state, without a page number at the top right. "This primary map of Canada emphasizes the importance of the river trading routes . . . The map can hardly be called a definitive map in terms of the developing cartography, but nevertheless, it is the first map of Canada that was generally available to the public, and one that defined, at least for the southern and eastern parts of the country, the fur-trading routes"--Kershaw I:289; Karpinski XLI; McCorkle 703.3.