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Title

  • Mappemonde a l'usage du roy

Names

  • L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726.

Created / Published

  • Paris : Chez Guillaume Delisle, premier geographe du roy, de l'Academie royale des sciences, sur le quay de l'horloge, avec privilege, 1720.

Headings

  • -  World maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Navigation
  • -  Nautical charts
  • -  Earth (Planet)

Notes

  • -  Shows nautical exploration routes.
  • -  Relief shown pictorially.
  • -  Includes ill.
  • -  Mounted on cloth.

Medium

  • 1 map : hand col. ; 2 hemispheres each 33 cm. in diam., on sheet 48 x 71 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3200 1720 .L5
  • G3200 1720 .L5 Copy 2 Continents outlined in color, map otherwise uncolored, unmounted, on sheet 55 x 76 cm.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540 to 4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2005627023

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

L'Isle, Guillaume De. Mappemonde a L'usage Du Roy. Paris: Chez Guillaume Delisle, premier geographe du roy, de l'Academie royale des sciences, sur le quay de l'horloge, avec privilege, 1720. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2005627023/.

APA citation style:

L'Isle, G. D. (1720) Mappemonde a L'usage Du Roy. Paris: Chez Guillaume Delisle, premier geographe du roy, de l'Academie royale des sciences, sur le quay de l'horloge, avec privilege. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2005627023/.

MLA citation style:

L'Isle, Guillaume De. Mappemonde a L'usage Du Roy. Paris: Chez Guillaume Delisle, premier geographe du roy, de l'Academie royale des sciences, sur le quay de l'horloge, avec privilege, 1720. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2005627023/>.