May 26, 2016 - Sale 2417

Sale 2417 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
SANSON, NICHOLAS & GUILLAUME. Amerique Septentrionale. Double-page engraved map. 18x24 inches sheet size; original outline hand-color. Paris: Chez Pierre Mariette, 1669

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The most important French map of North America of its generation, produced by the country's most esteemed family of cartographers. Burden, The Mapping of North America I, 404; (first state) McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 669.4; McLaughlin, California as an Island, 45; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America, 399; Tooley, "California as an Island," 8 in Tooley,The Mapping of America.