![[WORLD MAP] MORTIER, PIERRE. Carte Generale de Toutes les Costes du Monde et les Pays Nouvellement Decouvert, Dressee sur les Relations les Plus Nouvelles.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/929/1447929.jpg?itok=QOE6lt24)
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Lot 1113
[WORLD MAP] MORTIER, PIERRE. Carte Generale de Toutes les Costes du Monde et les Pays Nouvellement Decouvert, Dressee sur les Relations les Plus Nouvelles.
Amsterdam: [circa 1730 or later]. Engraved by Baltasar Ruyter. Hand-colored engraved map on two joined sheets. Sheet 24 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (63 x 101 cm); neat lines 23 x 35 1/2 inches (58 x 90 cm); framed. Repaired tear into image from left margin, tissue repair to foot of fold on verso, showthrough of mounting tape on verso, lightly toned, an attractive example, backlabel to frame of the O'Shea Gallery, London.
An interesting large world map depicting California as an Island. Mortier's map is a copy of the Jaillot world map first published in the Neptune Francois in 1693, the map re-engraved and published in Amsterdam with English, Dutch and French text as here. In North America, the map depicts California as an island, the Mer Glaciale extends through to the Strait of Anian, and the map omits the recent discovery of the Great Lakes. After 1700, the text in the title Et Principalement... was added and in 1730 the map re-engraved by Baltasar Ruyter with an expansion of the north-east of Asia. Shirley 559.
C Property of a New York Family
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