Sanson d'Abbeville, Nicolas

L'Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles et Exactes; et en Divers Traittes de Geographie, & d'Histoire. [Amsterdam: Halma, circa 1700]

Quarto (216 x 165 mm). 15 dꦡouble-page engraved maps. Contemporary calf, spine with raised ꧃bands in six compartments, second gilt-lettered, others with repeat decoration in gilt; some rubbing to extremities, wear to joints.

A rare issue of Sanson's atlas of the Americas

The maps include detailed charts of North, South, and Central America, the West Indies, Canada, Mexico, Florida and the southeast, and a map of New Mexico showing most of the✨ Spanish southwest territory with California depicted as an island. The maps are titled as follows:

1) Americque Septentriole

2) Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c.

3) La Floride

4) Audience de Mexico

5) Audience de Guadalajar🍒a, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &a🌊mp;c.

6) Audience de Guatimala

7) Les Isles Antilles, &c.

8) Amerique Meridionale

9) Terre Ferme, Nouveau royme de Grenade, &c.

10) Guiane divisee en Guiane, et Caribane

11) Le Perou, et le cours de la rivre Amazone

12) Le Chili 13) Le Brasil

14) Le Paraguay subdivise en ses prin🌳cipales parties, 💞suivant les dernieres relaons

15) Detroit de Magellan, Terre, et Isles Mཧagellanicques, &c.

Various states of the maps have been identified by Burden, Kershaw, and Cumming, though none conform definitively to this issue of the atlas. Grid lines were added to the plates for publication in Halma's edition of Description de tout l'Universe (Amsterdam 1700), suggesting the ꧒place and date of pub♓lication for this unrecorded edition.

REFERENCE

Burden 324-327; Cumming 97; Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada 137; Phillps, Atlases 1151 (first editiౠon); Sabin 76712; Streeter Sale 68 (undated edition)