Lot #: 83560
(Sea of the West) CARTE des Nouvelles Decouvertes au Nord de la Mer du Sud, Tout a l'Est de la Siberie et du Kamtchatka. . . |
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Description
After the famous De L'Isle (Joseph Nicholas) and Philippe Buache map of 1750.
Although concentrating on the northern Pacific, this map shows all of North America and Mexico. While the Russian coastline is shown with reasonable accuracy, notwithstanding Terre d'Yeso, the American coastline north of Cape Mendocino is very hypothetical and largely incorrect.
The map is of interest for the use of 'Mer de Corée' for the sea between Korea and Japan. There is a large western sea, and no real sense of Alaska at all. With the large Mer ou Baye de L'Quest in California.
A series of lakes joined by rivers seem to hold some promise of the elusive north-west passage, but the delineation is indistinct as if to emphasise Santini's uncertainty.
The map was prepared by the Venetian cartographer and publisher François (Père) Santini, and first published in Santini's’ Atlas Universel dresse sur les meuilleures cartes modernes 1776.
Mer de l'Ouest ("Western Sea"), originally the
goal of EXPLORATION during the French regime, was the stuff of wishful
thinking, obligingly corroborated by Indians. Initially thought to be an
inland sea somewhere west of the Great Lakes, it gradually blended in
imagination with the Pacific. The search for the Mer de l'Ouest had a
useful function, since the argument that exploration must be financed by
the FUR TRADE served ambitious traders well in their efforts to secure
monopoly privileges from the royal authorities.
The imaginary Mer de l'Ouest finally came to rest in the region around Lake Winnipeg, where, in the middle of the buffer zone marked off by the Cree and Assiniboine around the English at Hudson Bay, LA VÉRENDRYE, his sons and their successors established a network of trading posts after 1730.
Although concentrating on the northern Pacific, this map shows all of North America and Mexico. While the Russian coastline is shown with reasonable accuracy, notwithstanding Terre d'Yeso, the American coastline north of Cape Mendocino is very hypothetical and largely incorrect.
The map is of interest for the use of 'Mer de Corée' for the sea between Korea and Japan. There is a large western sea, and no real sense of Alaska at all. With the large Mer ou Baye de L'Quest in California.
A series of lakes joined by rivers seem to hold some promise of the elusive north-west passage, but the delineation is indistinct as if to emphasise Santini's uncertainty.
The map was prepared by the Venetian cartographer and publisher François (Père) Santini, and first published in Santini's’ Atlas Universel dresse sur les meuilleures cartes modernes 1776.
Santini collaborated with Janvier, and gives credit to him on most of his maps. The atlas is effectively an enlarged Italian copy of the Robert de Vaugondy 'Atlas Universel', with some 30 additional maps after other - mostly - french mapmakers. In 1784 Santini sold the plates to M. Remondini, whose name appears on this particular example - indicating that this is the second state of the map. Decorative title cartouche.
"Mer de L'Ouest" or "Sea of the West"
The imaginary Mer de l'Ouest finally came to rest in the region around Lake Winnipeg, where, in the middle of the buffer zone marked off by the Cree and Assiniboine around the English at Hudson Bay, LA VÉRENDRYE, his sons and their successors established a network of trading posts after 1730.
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