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Title	Western Hemisphere 1775
Full Title	L'Amerique dressee sur les relations les plus recentes rectifiees sur les dernieres observations. Dediee et presentee a sa Majeste tres Chrestienne Louis XVI / par son tres humble et tres fidele sujet J.B. Nolin
Creator	Nolin, Jean Baptiste, 1686-1762
Contributors	Crepy, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), d. 1796
Publication Date	1775
Map Publisher	J.B. Crepy
Subject	America--Maps Early maps
Continent	South America North and Central America
Notes	Relief shown pictorially. Includes ill. and text.
Essay Description of Item	This engraved wall map of the Americas includes a decorated title cartouche featuring four different vignettes. Along with the scale bar in the lower left, a decorated scene from the New World features armed Europeans disrupting a party of cannibals roasting a human head on a spit. The map shows the tracks of the great American and Pacific voyages of Columbus, Verrazzano, Magellan and Quiros. There are 30 separate inset scenes around the margins recording the discovery of the various parts of the Americas, each with engraved text. California has few details, the Great lakes are slightly enlarged and the West is undiscovered. This map was first issued in 1740 by J.B. Nolin II and this re-issue is likely only by Jean Baptiste Crepy (fl 1753-1796). Crepy who worked on the same street as Nolin in Paris and acquired the copperplates after his death. This Nolin America map is not noted by Tooley Dictionary of Mapmakers but Crepy is shown as producing other maps of America in 1772 and 1774. The issue date of 1775, suggests that it was printed to meet the renewed French interest in the Americas at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
Type	Image
Scale	[ca. 1:16,000,000]
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map on 4 sheets : col. ; 125 x 145 cm., each sheet 62 x 70 cm. or smaller.
Original Item ID	(AGS) (RARE) (MAPS) 052 A-1775
Language	fr
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am010979 am010980 am010981am010982
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Date.Digitized	2011
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

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