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Carte nouvelle de la Mer du Sud

Date
1707 to 1741
Subject
Category
Author
Leth, Hendrik De
Publisher
Bij Johannes Covens & Cornelius Mortier
Keywords
geography
Pacific ocean
Current holder
Series number
Z/M4 120/1740/3 , Z/M4 120/1740/1 , Z/M4 120/1740/2
Item number
74VvAe6bOAmb
Access rights
Digitised
Rights
Please acknowledge that the image is from the collections of the State Library of New South Wales.
Country of origin
Language
Description from source
Full title
Carte nouvelle de la Mer du Sud [cartographic material] : dressée par ordre des principaux Directeurs & tirée des memoirs le plus recents et des Relations des navigateurs les plus modernes : tant de France que d’Espagne : l’on yä joint, diverses remarques curieuses par raport aux decouvertes des graduations des manierres du pais que de la navigation / donné au public par And. & Henry de Leth à Amsterdam sur le Pont de la Bourse au Pescheur.

Physical Description
Cartographic data
Scale [ca. 1:31,000,000]

Physical content
1 map : col. ; 56.1 x 91.7 cm.

Contents
Insets: Vera-Cruz. Scale not given — Baye de Rio Janeiro. Scale [ca. 1:270,000] — Le Havane. Scale [ca. 1:5,265] — Le Detroit de Gibaltar. Scale not given — Baye de Porto Bello. Scale not given — Isthme de Panama ou de Darien. Scale [ca. 1:2,666,000].

General note
Decorative features include: Cartouche decorated with a lion, a leopard, a fox and monkeys at bottom right hand corner of map, showing the settlement of Cape Town and its shipping — Decorative cartouche at centre bottom of map showing the religious practices of Indians in Mexico — Vignette of native life in the French Islands.

Explanatory text in Dutch at bottom right of centre on map: Nieuwe Kaart van de Zuyd Zee … .

Explanatory text in Latin at bottom left of map: Nova Maris Pacifici Tabula … .

Imprint in Dutch on map: Uyt gegeven door And. en Hend. de Leth tot Amsteldam op de Beurs-Zluys in de Visser, [1740].

Imprint in French on map: Amsterdam : Donné au public, par Aud. & Henry de Leth, [1740].

Includes text and ill.

Prime meridian: Ferro.

Probably vol. 3, no. 94 from: Nieuwe atlas inhoudende de vier gedeeltens der waereld … versameldt van de beste autheuren. Te Amsterdam : Bij Johannes Covens & Cornelius Mortier, 1707-1741.

This highly decorative map highlights the continent of North and South America, featuring California as an island, as well as the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. It also includes Nouvelle Hollande [i.e. Australia] and Nouvelle Guinea [i.e. New Guinea], both distortedly represented, with a portion of South-East as well as the west coast of Africa. In particular, note that the ‘Solomon Islands’ are depicted next to Carpentaria which extends into Terre de Quir and joins ‘Nouvelle Zelande’. The sea tracks of explorers are included. The map also includes many vignettes, annotations and some insets. Relief is shown pictorially.

Exhibited in: Crux. Rare maps from the State Library of NSW

Mitchell Library copies at: Z/ M4 120/ 1740/ 1 and Z/ M4 120/ 1740/ 3 : Information transferred from the Mitchell Library shelflist catalogue as part of the eRecords Project 2009-2010.

Mitchell Library copy at: Z/ M4 120/ 1740/ 2 and Z/ M4 120/ 1740/ 3 : Transferred from F2/8.
Physical format
Maps
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Carte nouvelle de la Mer du Sud
Place of Publication
Amsterdam

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