DESHAYES, Jean (d. 1706) and Nicolas de FER (1646-1720). De la grande rivière de Canada: appellée par les europeens de St. Laurens . Paris: [c.1695]. Important early issue before letters of this chart showing the great St Lawrence River in Canada. The main sweep of the map covers from Quebec to Anticosti and southward to the Bay of Chaleurs. One large inset continues the river to Lake Ontario. There are five other insets chiefly concerned with details of the banks of the river. This copy correlates with that in the Library of Congress (call no. G3312.S5P5 1715 .D41), even down to the fact that both have inking errors in the lower central inset. LoC give a date of 1715, but theirs is without the lengthy letterpress description found at the bottom dated 1715 on other copies. Tooley's Dictionary in the Deshayes entry ascribes a date of c.1695, which seems about right: the copy in the BnF dated c.1685 has a strong impression with less plate wear than is evident in the present lot. Very rare - the last copy we can trace selling at auction was in 2004. Engraved map on 2 joined sheets, verso blank, 6 inset charts, one compass rose, 609 x 957mm (plate mark), 674 x 1006mm (sheet).
DESHAYES, Jean (d. 1706) and Nicolas de FER (1646-1720). De la grande rivière de Canada: appellée par les europeens de St. Laurens . Paris: [c.1695]. Important early issue before letters of this chart showing the great St Lawrence River in Canada. The main sweep of the map covers from Quebec to Anticosti and southward to the Bay of Chaleurs. One large inset continues the river to Lake Ontario. There are five other insets chiefly concerned with details of the banks of the river. This copy correlates with that in the Library of Congress (call no. G3312.S5P5 1715 .D41), even down to the fact that both have inking errors in the lower central inset. LoC give a date of 1715, but theirs is without the lengthy letterpress description found at the bottom dated 1715 on other copies. Tooley's Dictionary in the Deshayes entry ascribes a date of c.1695, which seems about right: the copy in the BnF dated c.1685 has a strong impression with less plate wear than is evident in the present lot. Very rare - the last copy we can trace selling at auction was in 2004. Engraved map on 2 joined sheets, verso blank, 6 inset charts, one compass rose, 609 x 957mm (plate mark), 674 x 1006mm (sheet).
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