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ALLARD, Carolus (1648-1709). Recentissima Novi Orbis sive Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Tabula, [Amsterdam: c. 1700]. Hand-coloured engraved map, California as an island, elaborate title cartouche of natives, sugar cane and indigenous wildlife, small inset map of part of New Zealand, (trimmed at lower edge and remargined, very lightly browned), 500 x 583mm. Tooley The Mapping of America 65.
"California as an island on the G. Sanson model with the same nomenclature except that Nova Albion is inserted in the North, P. de Canou omitted and B. S. Simon inserted from N. Sanson. Immediately to the north of California is a large land mass stretching north westwards 'Terra Essonis.'" (Tooley).
"California as an island on the G. Sanson model with the same nomenclature except that Nova Albion is inserted in the North, P. de Canou omitted and B. S. Simon inserted from N. Sanson. Immediately to the north of California is a large land mass stretching north westwards 'Terra Essonis.'" (Tooley).
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