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• Title:Hemisphere septentrional pour voir plus distinctement les terres Arctiques / par Guillaume Delisle de l'Academie Rle. des Sciences.
  
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• Author/Creator:L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726, cartographer.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726. author. Atlas nouveau,
  Cóvens, Jean, printer.
  Mortier, Corneille, 1699-1783 printer.
  Cóvens et Mortier, printer.
  Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:A Amsterdam : chez Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier libraires, [between 1714 and 1743?].
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3210 1714 .D4
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Arctic regions--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Northern Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Northern Hemisphere--Discovery and exploration--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:Scale approximately 1:37,000,000 ; polar projection (N 90° - N 0°).
  1 map ; colored ; 43 cm in diameter on plate 46 x 46 cm.
  
• Summary:Copperplate hand-coloured engraving depicting the Northern Hemisphere.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_12.
  
• Notes:Relief shown pictorially.
  Most likely from: L'Isle, Guillaume de, and Nicolas Sanson. Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarque?es les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques &c. Amsterdam: Chez Jean Cóvens & Corneille Mortier sur le Vygendam, 1733.
  Prime meridian: Ferro.
  Lacks annotations included in French and Dutch in the 1740 editions. See Wagner 504.