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BLAEU, Willem and Jan. Extrema Americae, Versus Boream, ubi, Terra Nova Nova Francia.. [Amsterdam, 1662].
BLAEU, Willem and Jan. Extrema Americae, Versus Boream, ubi, Terra Nova Nova Francia.. [Amsterdam, 1662]. Engraved map, partially hand-colored, 445 x 562 mm. Latin text on verso. (Some light staining and offsetting.) Matted and framed. Derived mainly from the Samuel de Champlain Nouvelle France , 1632, this map "reflects the growing importance of the waters of New France to Europe" (Burden). The present example is extracted from the first Latin edition: Joannes Blaeu America, quae est Geographiae Blauianae pars quinta liberunus volumen undecimum, Blaeu's atlas of America, the eleventh volume of his great Atlas Major. Burden Mapping of North America 371; Koeman I:71-5; See Coolie Verner in Tooley, The Mapping of America, chapter 4, p.166.