California as Island sailing ships New World North South America 1686 Mallet map February2018 13" H x 18 7/8"

13" H x  18 7/8" W

Canada map defective as seen (lacking a small sliver along right edge)

(Civil War Era- Abraham Lincoln- Chase- Blair- Seward- Welles- Bates- Smith)

1936 issue

6 1/4" H x 3 7/8" W

California as Island sailing ships New World North South America 1686 Mallet map February2018 13" H x 18 7/8"Nouveau Continent. (Old Prints, Mallet Prints, Western Hemisphere, North America, South America, California as an Island). Issued 1686, Paris, for A. M. Mallet. Charming 17th century copper engraved map with lovely hand color. Vivid and clear cartographic depiction of California as an island. The earliest state of this charming miniature map which has the sailing ships in the oceans. The image has a near folk art feel, a style unique to this