A work of geo-politics by De l’Isle and presented by his Amsterdam publishers — showing the French lands in the context of a still relatively unexplored and unverified northwestern continent.
Hemisphere occidental: dressé en 1720 pour l'usage particulier du Roy sur les observations astronomiques et geographiques, raportées la même année dans l'histoire et dans le memoires de 'Academie Rle. des Sciences
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
1720
map
Western Hemisphere
1720-1729
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Mapping STL catalog #7.
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