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• Title:Groenlande.
  
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• Author/Creator:Manesson-Mallet, Allain, approximately 1630-approximately 1706 cartographer.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?. author. De La Sphere,
  Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:[Paris] : [D. Thierry], [1683].
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3380 1683 M35
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Greenland--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  North Atlantic Region--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:Scale not known.
  1 map ; 15 x 10 cm.
  
• Summary:Hand coloured engraved print of the area surrounding Greenland, including Baffin Bay, the area modernly known as Nunavut, and the northern regions of Quebec and Labrador.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_32cxi, and also a hand colored version published later, in 1719, mccormick_236a.
  
• Notes:Relief shown pictorially.
  Map removed from book: Mallet, Alain Manesson. "De La Sphere." Description De L'Univers. Paris: D. Thierry, 1683, page 299.
  "Grönland" and "Fig. iii" at top of sheet.
  "Tertes [i.e. Terres] Arctiques. Figure CXI" is above top margin.
  Figure CXI, from 'Tertes Arctiques' in Description de l'universe; or (full title: Description de l'univers, contenant les differents systems du monde, les cartes generales & particulieres de la geographie ancienne & moderne : les plans & les profils des principales villes & des autres lieux plus considerables de la terre : avec les portraits des souverains qui y commandent leurs blasons, titres & livrees : et les moeures, religions, gouvernemens & divers habillemens de chaque nation.)