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