Collection search - Atlantis Insula, à Nicalao Sanson. Antiquitati restituta ; [cartographic material] / nunc denum majori formi delineata, et in decem Regna, iuxta decem Neptuni filios distributa. Praeterea insulae, nostraeq; continentis regiones quibus imperavere Altantici Reges; aut quas armis tentavere, ex contibus geographicis Guilielmi Sanson Nicolai filii. Cio DCLXVIII. Cum privilegio reno ad viginti annos Lutetiae Parisiorum apud autorem in Eudibus Regus 1690.

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Atlantis Insula, à Nicalao Sanson. Antiquitati restituta ; [cartographic material] / nunc denum majori formi delineata, et in decem Regna, iuxta decem Neptuni filios distributa. Praeterea insulae, nostraeq; continentis regiones quibus imperavere Altantici Reges; aut quas armis tentavere, ex contibus geographicis Guilielmi Sanson Nicolai filii. Cio DCLXVIII. Cum privilegio reno ad viginti annos Lutetiae Parisiorum apud autorem in Eudibus Regus 1690.

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Date:

1690.

Reference:

R11981-567-3-E, Volume number: 109

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection #109

Local class no.:

H3/1-2000/1699

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4143871

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

America: Western Hemisphere

Atlantis Insula, à Nicalao Sanson. Antiquitati restituta ;
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Date(s):

1690.

Place:

Paris:

Place of creation:

France

Publisher:

s.n.,

Extent:

1 map : mounted on paper, hand col. ; 38 x 54 cm on sheet 44 x 59 cm.

Language of material:

Latin

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This is Sanson's unusual composition showing ancient geography within a contemporary outline of the Americas, which is noted in the cartouche as the mythical island of Atlantis. This is a purely topographical map and the only cities shown are Mexico City and Cuzco, the capitals of the New World. The continents are divided into ten regions, named for the ten sons of Neptune. The Great Lakes are shown but still very misshapen. A large lake in the western part of North America is the source of a river that empties into the sea between the continent and the island of California. The map includes both Asian and European coastlines and bits of New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia. The large cartouche is surrounded by Neptune and his ten sons.
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Sanson, Guillaume, 1633-1703

Cartographer: Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
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General note:

Pictorial relief.
Copperplate engraving.
Narrative on the map interprets New World geography in the light of the works of classical authors. Quotations come from Plato's Timeaus and Critias, suggesting that the Atlantans had invaded Europe in ancient times. Seneca and Claudius Aelianus are also quoted on the future existence of the New World and its distance from the Old World.
Originally published in Nicolas Sanson's "Carte générales de tovtes les parties dv monde".

Custodial history:

Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Citation/reference note:

Burden, Entry 405, State 3, Tooley, page 124, item 51, Mickwitz and Miekkavaara. v. 2, Entry 275, map no [53]

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC6880

Date of issue:

Date of issue based on information appearing in Burden entry.

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109 : Former container label was "1-2000 NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA 1699".
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North America Early works to 1800

South America Early works to 1800

Western hemisphere - Maps - Early works to 1800
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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80101/245 CA
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Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]
Original can be viewed in the presence of an early cartographic archivist. Microfiche version is open.

Microfiche NMC6880

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981] 109

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright: Expired
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