L'AMERIQUE MERIDIONALE ET SEPTENRIONALE, Dressee selon les dernieres Relations...[California Island]

A rare, early state of an elegant, French map of the Western Hemisphere.
This is de Fer's reduced version of his wall map of America. It features the Island of California covering the entire west coast north of the Tropic of Cancer. One of the prominent features in northern Mexico is Les Mine de S. Iean et de Ste. Barbe, the legendary Santa Barbara mines of the Chihuahua-Durango region.
The Pacific Northwest and Alaska are essentially blank. There are also several large spurious lakes on both continents, including Lake May in the Carolinas. A partial coastline of New Zealand appears beside the title cartouche. The map is richly decorated with three cartouches and two compass roses. Engraved by Hendrick van Loon, who also contributed to de Fer's wall map.

This is the second, 1705, state of the map, first issued in 1699. Both of the first two states were separately issued, and are consequently rare.

Reference: Burden #753, Rumsey 10022.011., Leventhal