L'Amerique Septentrionale: De L'Isle 1700 [c. 1708]

Title: L'Amerique Septentrionale Author: Claude, Guillaume De L'Isle Date: 1700 [c. 1708] Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning and foxing, refreshed color, minor wear along issued center fold Inches: 27 x 19 7/8 [Paper] Centimeters: 68.58 x 50.48 [Paper] Product ID: 316055 C. 1708 fifth state of L’Amerique Septentrionale by Claude De L’Isle (1644-1720) and his son Guillaume (1675-1726). This map of North America (first state published 1700) proved foundational for future cartographic efforts in the region. In 1984, first-state examples of each significant De L’Isle map of the Americas were unearthed in an Austrian private collection. This discovery revealed the map which experts had long regarded as the first state of L’Amerique Septentrionale to be in actuality the second state. In years following, other examples came to light, and today we know of a handful of these first-states. The De L’Isles’ map stretches from