COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
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JCBMAPS~1~1
JCB Map Collection
Collection
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Accession Number:
C-6704
accession_number
C-6704
Accession Number
false
File Name:
C-6704-000
file_name
C-6704-000
File Name
false
Call number:
Cabinet E768 AlJ77
call_number
Cabinet E768 AlJ77
Call number
false
Map title:
Nuevo mapa geographico de la America septentrional, perteneciente al virreynato de Mexico dedicado à los sabios miembros de la Academia real de las Ciencias de Paris por su muy rendido servidor, y capellan, Don Joseph Antonio de Alzate, y Ramirez. Año de 1769
map_title
Nuevo mapa geographico de la America septentrional, perteneciente al virreynato de Mexico dedicado à los sabios miembros de la Academia real de las Ciencias de Paris por su muy rendido servidor, y capellan, Don Joseph Antonio de Alzate, y Ramirez. Año de 1769
Map title
false
Place of Publication:
Paris
place_of_publication
Paris
Place of Publication
false
Publisher:
chez Dezauche géographique. Successeur et possesseur du fond géographique des S.res De l'Isle et Buache 1ers. Géographiques du Roi, Rue des Noyers près celle des Anglois
publisher
chez Dezauche géographique. Successeur et possesseur du fond géographique des S.res De l'Isle et Buache 1ers. Géographiques du Roi, Rue des Noyers près celle des Anglois
Publisher
false
Publication date:
[1779 or later]
publication_date
[1779 or later]
Publication date
false
Map size height:
54 cm.
map_size_height
54 cm.
Map size height
false
Map size width:
68 cm.
map_size_width
68 cm.
Map size width
false
Item description:
Engraved map, colored, 1 map on 2 sheets
item_description
Engraved map, colored, 1 map on 2 sheets
Item description
false
Geographical description:
Map of North America.
geographical_description
Map of North America.
Geographical description
false
Cartobibliographic notes:
This map has been trimmed at top and bottom, removing the imprint at the center bottom, outside the border. Above imprint supplied by comparison with Library of Congress copy, apparently otherwise similar; the removal of the imprint is of the second edition rather than the first. Note at lower left: "Publié sous le privilége de l'Académie r.le des Sciences de Paris." Above this is a note "Depuis l'envoy de cette Carte [in 1768?], le voyage de Mr. [Jean] Chappe [d'Auteroche] à la Californie a procuré des corrections dans la position de différens endroits qu'il est intéressant d'indiquer ici;" there follow coordinates for the correct positions of Nueva Vera Cruz, Mexico City and San José (Baja California). These data, especially for the last-named, were taken in the course of observing the 1769 Transit of Venus. A key within the title cartouche gives the letters of 6 dioceses of New Spain and explains conventional symbols. At center left is the note "Esta carte se ha dispuesto por el unico reconocimiento que se ha hecho de ella en el Año de 1602, por Sebastian Vizcaino." Prime meridian used is that of Ferro; scale is expressed in an "Escala de 105 leugas [sic] Castillanas de 17 1/2 en grado" beneath the key. With extensive penciled notes on the dorse in the hand of Thomas W. Streeter; his ex-libris also present there.
cartobibliographic_notes
This map has been trimmed at top and bottom, removing the imprint at the center bottom, outside the border. Above imprint supplied by comparison with Library of Congress copy, apparently otherwise similar; the removal of the imprint is of the second edition rather than the first. Note at lower left: "Publié sous le privilége de l'Académie r.le des Sciences de Paris." Above this is a note "Depuis l'envoy de cette Carte [in 1768?], le voyage de Mr. [Jean] Chappe [d'Auteroche] à la Californie a procuré des corrections dans la position de différens endroits qu'il est intéressant d'indiquer ici;" there follow coordinates for the correct positions of Nueva Vera Cruz, Mexico City and San José (Baja California). These data, especially for the last-named, were taken in the course of observing the 1769 Transit of Venus. A key within the title cartouche gives the letters of 6 dioceses of New Spain and explains conventional symbols. At center left is the note "Esta carte se ha dispuesto por el unico reconocimiento que se ha hecho de ella en el Año de 1602, por Sebastian Vizcaino." Prime meridian used is that of Ferro; scale is expressed in an "Escala de 105 leugas [sic] Castillanas de 17 1/2 en grado" beneath the key. With extensive penciled notes on the dorse in the hand of Thomas W. Streeter; his ex-libris also present there.
Cartobibliographic notes
false
References:
BMPM 1/392; see Chappe d'Auteroche, Voyage en Californie (ed. Cassini, Paris, 1772), avant-propos, pp. 54n, 68n, etc.; Lowery, Descr. list of maps 516; WLCL 1/14
references
BMPM 1/392; see Chappe d'Auteroche, Voyage en Californie (ed. Cassini, Paris, 1772), avant-propos, pp. 54n, 68n, etc.; Lowery, Descr. list of maps 516; WLCL 1/14
References
false
Geographic Area:
Western hemisphere
geographic_area
Western hemisphere
Geographic Area
false
Scale 1:
1:1,500,000
scale_1
1:1,500,000
Scale 1
false
Normalized date:
1779
normalized_date
1779
Normalized date
false
LC bibliographic number:
b53976587
lc_bibliographic_number
b53976587
LC bibliographic number
false
Creator:
Alzate y Ramírez, José Antonio de, 1737-1799
creator
Alzate y Ramírez, José Antonio de, 1737-1799
Creator
false