Amérique septentrionale

Title

Amérique septentrionale

translation of

North America

Creator

Nicolas Sanson See all items with this value

Date

1650

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Bibliographic Citation

Sanson, Nicolas. 1650. Amérique septentrionale. Map. Library of Congress. https://lccn.loc.gov/2003623388, accessed August 29, 2024.

annotates

• Depicts Baffin Bay to northern coast of South America.
• From Sanson's 1658 (i.e., 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde.
• Nicolas Sanson, considered the “Father of French cartography,” published two similar maps in 1650 and 1657 that include the towns of Achusi and Tascalusa, and is one of the first to show the Alabama River branching from the Mobile River.

Subject

North America See all items with this value

Rivers See all items with this value

Indigenous Places See all items with this value

Chahta (Choctaw) See all items with this value

Chickasaw See all items with this value

Temporal Coverage

Postcontact See all items with this value

17th Century See all items with this value