Detail View: JCB Map Collection: 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
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Accession Number:
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C-6704
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File Name:
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C-6704-000
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Call number:
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Cabinet E768 AlJ77
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Map title:
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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
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Place of Publication:
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Paris
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Publisher:
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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
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Publication date:
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[1779 or later]
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Map size height:
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54 cm.
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Map size width:
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68 cm.
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Item description:
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Engraved map, colored, 1 map on 2 sheets
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Geographical description:
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Map of North America.
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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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.
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References:
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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
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Geographic Area:
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Western hemisphere
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Scale 1:
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1:1,500,000
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Normalized date:
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1779
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LC bibliographic number:
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b53976587
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Creator:
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Alzate y Ramírez, José Antonio de, 1737-1799
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