Nicholas Sanson:  Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

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Title: Audience De Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. . .

Map Maker: Nicholas Sanson

Description:

First edition of the first regional map to focus closely on California as an Island.

Prior to this map, all maps with California shown as an Island were either World maps, Western Hemisphere, North America, Pacific Ocean or some substantially larger geographical region.   The region illustrated was still largely unknown.  First map to show the so-called Second Sanson Model of insular California (two bays shown in Northernmost portion of the island). Nomenclature is a combination of Blaeu and Sanson. New Indian tribes named along the Rio Grande.  The peninsula above California is a curious and unexplained addition.

A  seminal map, which influenced California Cartography for the next 50 years.  A cornerstone map for California collectors.

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