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Descripsion des costs, pts., rades, illes de la Nouuele France faict selon son vray méridien : avec la déclinaison de la ment de plussieurs endrois selon que le sieur de Castes le franc le démontre en son liure de la mécométrie de l'emnt. / faict et observé par le sr. de Champlain 1607.

Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1607.

NOTES
Shows coast of North America from western Nova Scotia to Cape Cod.

Relief shown pictorially.

Gift; Henry Harrisse; 1910.

Pen-and-ink with green wash.

Vellum chart collection, no. 15.

Reference: LC Nautical charts on vellum, 15

Includes table of longitude calculations in upper right corner, title cartouche, and decorative scale not specifying measurement.

Stamped on verso at lower left: 540.

Imperfect: Vertically fold-lined at center; small holes at upper left and upper right.

Scale [ca. 1:1,500,000].

SUBJECTS
Nautical charts--Atlantic coast (North America)--Early works to 1800.
Atlantic coast (North America)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
North America--Atlantic Coast.

MEDIUM
1 ms. map : col., vellum ; 37 x 55 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G3321.P5 1607 .C4 Vault : Vellum 15

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
g3321p ct001431 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3321p.ct001431

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