La Californie ou novelle Caroline Teatru de los Trabijos, apostolicos de la compa de Jesus en la America, sept.

Date1720

MediumEngraving

DimensionsImage: 19 x 27 in. (48.3 x 68.6 cm)
Framed: 29 x 32 in. (73.7 x 81.3 cm)

ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase in honor of Dr. James C. Moore, Four Centuries Bond Fund

Object numberPC2005.57.1

DescriptionThis map, engraved with "La Californie ou novelle Caroline Teatru de los Trabijos, apostolicos de la compa de Jesus en la America, Sept.," depicts California with an indented coast. The map is an enlarged version (a re-issue) of Nicolas de Fer's map of 1700 with the addition of placenames in New Mexico. Horizontal format, unframed.

One of the finest early maps for CA and the southwest. Based on information gathered by Father Eusebio Kino before 1695 (d. 1711) whose travels among the Seris and Pimas of northern Sonora included expeditions north and west to Arizona. At the time it was the best synthesis of knowledge for the region just before his 1701 discovery that CA was attached to the continent.

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