NORTH AMERICA 1720ca JEAN-BAPTISTE NOLIN UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP

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NORTH AMERICA 1720ca JEAN-BAPTISTE NOLIN UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
NORTH AMERICA 1720ca JEAN-BAPTISTE NOLIN UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
Description
Amerique Septentrionale ou Partie des Indes Occidentales Par J. B. Nolin.
Description:
Striking and highly detailed very interesting unusual 1720 approx.
copper engraved map of  North America, credited to Jean Baptiste Nolin.
The map shows a fine snapshot of North America at the beginning of the 19th Century, incorporating a number of early cartographic myths and misconceptions.
The map shows the course of the Mississippi River, shortly after it had been significantly revised and improved by Guillaume De l'Isle.
The Longue River and Gnacsitares are shown, based upon the reports of Baron Lahontan.
California is no longer an island, following the model of Guillaume De l'Isle's map of North America.
Florida is depicted as an archipelago. The Great Lakes are very well delineated for the period.
Of considerable interest, Nolin tentatively toys with the idea of two possible inland waterways from the Northwest Coast of America, a forerunner to the Sea of the West and River of the West concept which would dominate the debates of the French Royal Academy of Sciences from the 1750s to the 1770s.
This map is scarce on the market.
Date:
1720 approx. ( undated )
Dimension:
Paper size approx.:
cm 31,3 x 23,2
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Wide margin to the top. Small lower margin. Quite right lateral margin, partially missing to the lower side. Very short left lateral margin. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Small tears, repaired on the verso. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images
.
Mapmaker:
Jean-Baptiste Nolin (c.1657–1708) was a French cartographer and engraver. Nolin trained with the engraver François de Poilly, which caught the attention of the Italian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli, who invited him to engrave his own maps. In 1694 he was named geographer to the Duke of Orléans (Philippe II), and in 1701 he was named engraver to the king (Louis XIV). Nolin set up a family publishing house on Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, which was initially unsuccessful until it was moved nearer to other geographers on Quai de l'Horloge. Many of Nolin's maps were based on previous works by Coronelli and the amateur geographer Jean-Nicholas de Tralage, known as Sieur de Tillemon, who supplied him with most of his material. In 1700, Nolin published Le Globe Terreste, a 125×140 cm world map. He was subsequently accused of plagiarism by Claude Delisle, the father of Guillaume Delisle, another cartographer. Claude accused Nolin of copying both the shape of California (depicting it as a peninsula rather than an island) and the mouth of the Mississippi River from a manuscript globe by Guillaume, which he had been working on since 1697 for Louis Boucherat, the chancellor of France. Nolin denied these accusations. Eventually, both Nolin and Guillaume were compelled to present their respective maps before a panel of experts, and to explain their sources for them. Nolin argued that the information he had used for his map was in the public domain, but the panel ruled in the Delisles' favour. Nolin was ordered to stop producing his map. The entire case took six years. Nolin's son, also named Jean-Baptiste Nolin (1686–1762), took over the business upon his father's death. Jean-Baptiste the younger produced an atlas that was published posthumously in 1783, 21 years after his death.
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