Amerique Septentrionale par N. De Fer

Reference: MS4027
Author Nicolas DE FER
Year: 1689
Zone: North America
Printed: Paris
Measures: 165 x 140 mm
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Reference: MS4027
Author Nicolas DE FER
Year: 1689
Zone: North America
Printed: Paris
Measures: 165 x 140 mm
Not Available

Description

Map taken from "Methode pour Apprendre Facilement la Geographie" by Nicolas de Fer, first published in 1689.

This attractive small map includes numerous interesting features. California is shown as an island while the northwest coast of North America remains blank. To the west is a partial outline of Terre de Iesso separated from the continent by the Detroit d'Anien.

The Great Lakes appear to all be joined, and remain open-ended to the west. The St. Lawrence River flows much too far to the south and Hudson Bay is labeled Mer Christiane. The entire south is labeled as Floride and the west is Nouveau Mexique.

This is the third state with the engraved page number 323 at top right, form the 1717 edition of the "Methode pour Apprendre Facilement la Geographie".

Copperplate,original outline colour, good condition.

Nicolas DE FER (1646-1720 circa)

One of the most prolific and influential French geographers and cartographers of the late 17th and early 18th Century. Nicolas was the youngest son of Parisian print and mapseller, Antoine de Fer [d.1673]. He produced numerous atlases: Atlas Curieux [1700-5] and its subsequent suites; Atlas ou Receuil des Cartes [1709]; Atlas Royale [1699]; Les Beautés de la France [1708]; Atlases detailing wars and countries relating to the Spanish succession [1701]; Italy [1702] & Germany [1705] and Franco-Belgian frontiers [1708-10]; Les Forces de L'Europe [1690-95]; Introduction à la Géographie [1708]; the Petit Nouveau Atlas [1697]. Aswell as his Atlas output de Fer is also well known for his large Wall maps, some 26 in total, aswell as large-scale town plans of European cities, and a signifcant output of thematic printed card games. His sign and emblem was the Sphère Royale, originally that of Melchior Tavernier, to which he was greatly attached and which appears on a large number of his works. He died on 25th October 1720 and his estate was divided between his three daughters, all three of whose husbands were closely involved in the Parisian engraving and publishing business : Guillaume Danet, Remi Richer, Jaques-Francois Besnard or Bénard. A number of de Fer's maps and atlases continued to be published by his heirs for another twenty or thirty years.

Nicolas DE FER (1646-1720 circa)

One of the most prolific and influential French geographers and cartographers of the late 17th and early 18th Century. Nicolas was the youngest son of Parisian print and mapseller, Antoine de Fer [d.1673]. He produced numerous atlases: Atlas Curieux [1700-5] and its subsequent suites; Atlas ou Receuil des Cartes [1709]; Atlas Royale [1699]; Les Beautés de la France [1708]; Atlases detailing wars and countries relating to the Spanish succession [1701]; Italy [1702] & Germany [1705] and Franco-Belgian frontiers [1708-10]; Les Forces de L'Europe [1690-95]; Introduction à la Géographie [1708]; the Petit Nouveau Atlas [1697]. Aswell as his Atlas output de Fer is also well known for his large Wall maps, some 26 in total, aswell as large-scale town plans of European cities, and a signifcant output of thematic printed card games. His sign and emblem was the Sphère Royale, originally that of Melchior Tavernier, to which he was greatly attached and which appears on a large number of his works. He died on 25th October 1720 and his estate was divided between his three daughters, all three of whose husbands were closely involved in the Parisian engraving and publishing business : Guillaume Danet, Remi Richer, Jaques-Francois Besnard or Bénard. A number of de Fer's maps and atlases continued to be published by his heirs for another twenty or thirty years.