1650s Map of North America showing California as an Island
America Settentrional - by Nicolas Sanson, the great seventeenth century French cartographer. 6" x 7" Italian edition of Sanson's famous prototype, showing California as an island, 1650/1656 map of North America, this published in Italy circa 1690. Small decorative title cartouche; upper left corner has "Tom. I". Rather than the.....