Carte du Canada et des Etats-Unis de l'Amèrique Septentrionale

Containers:

Closed Stacks, Drawer 33

Creator:

Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766 and Fortin, J. (Jean), 1740-1817

Extent:

1 Sheets

Scope and content:

Displayed here is the third state of the "Carte des Pays...de Canada," published by Jean Baptiste Fortin who had acquired the stock of the Vaugondy firm. This map is one of the first to recognize the name of the newly formed United States, "Etats Unis," as seen by the inclusion of the phrase in the title cartouche. The map is closely related to J.B. Eliot's "Carte du Theatre de la Guerre Actuel Entre les Anglais et les Treize Colonies Unies de l'Amerique Septentrionale ..." Eliot also uses the phrase "Etats Unis" in his map, referring to his title of U.S. Engineer under his name. Both Fortin and Eliot published their maps in 1778.

Covers Canada east of Lake Superior and south of James Bay; covers U.S. north of Albemarle Bay (N.C.). Relief shown pictorially. Meridians numbered eastward from unspecified prime (Montréal at E 305°). Believed to be the earliest map to use the name United States of America (in any language). Inset: Supplément pour l'Isle de Terre-Neuve.

Language:

French .

Custodial history:

Client reference #110; WAG #289269

Martayan Lan Augustyn Inc., 14 June 1995.

Material specific details:

Scale [ca. 1:3,800,000]

Physical description:

Foxing at edges and at crease fold.

Physical facet:

1 map: hand colored

Dimensions:

47 x 67 cm

Other descriptive data:

Paris : Chez Fortin, Ing'r mécanicien du Roi pour les globes et sphères, 1778

Related material:

McCorkle, B. New England in early printed maps, 778.16

Subjects:

Maps (documents)

Names:

Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766
Fortin, J. (Jean), 1740-1817

Places:

Canada
United States

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