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Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des grandes rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi aujourd’hui S. Louis, aux environs des-quelles se trouvent les etats, pais, nations, peuples &c. de la Floride, de la Louisiane, de la Virginie, de la Marie-Lande, de la Pensilvanie, du Nouveau Jersay, de la Nouvelle Yorck, de la Nouv. Angleterre, de l’Acadie, du Canada, des Esquimaux, des Hurons, des Iroquois, des Illinois &c. et de la grande Ile de Terre Neuve: dressee sur les memoires les plus nouveaux recueillis pour l’etablissement de la Compagnie Francoise Occident.
Amsterdam, 1719. Engraving, 16.5" x 19" plus margins. This fine one-sheet map of the eastern half of North America, which appeared in volume six of Chatelain’s Atlas Historique, was based on Nicolas de Fer’s great four sheet map published in 1718. It includes an inset map of the coast of Louisiana in the upper left corner and a small map of the environs of Quebec and a view of Quebec with a key in the lower right. According to Heidenreich and Dahl in their French Mapping of North America (Map Collector 19, 1982), the publication of this map was intended to promote John Law's new Compagnie Francoise Occident (of Mississippi Bubble scheme fame) as well as to fix in the mind of the French public the results of the 1713 boundary settlement. A slightly larger, separately published version of this map appeared in the same year. REFERENCES: McCorkle 719.4; Verner & Stuart-Stubbs 11.
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