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Maps that show
California as an island
 SPEED,
JOHN. A NEW AND ACCVRAT MAP OF THE WORLD.
WILLIAM HUMBLE IN POPSHEAD ALLE. LONDON. 1651. FULL HAND COLOR.
COPPER ENGRAVING. "Drawne according to ye truest
 Descriptions
latest Discoueries & best Observations yt have beene made by
English or Strangers. 1651"
 Shirley
(World) 317. John Speed's general world atlas titled "A
Prospect..." was first published in 1627 and was usually bound
up with copies of his atlas of English county maps. Speed is
credited with the map but it may have been by
 Abraham
Goos who prepared several other maps in The Prospect. The first
state plate was reprinted in 1631, 1632, 1646 and 1650. After
that the next state was partially reengraved by William Humble,
George's son, and dated 1651. Two more states were by other
publishers. The William Humble state is the rarest, according to
Shirley (World, p.341). Extremely detailed world in hemispheres.
California is shown as an island and the four circumnavigators
are shown in small oval portraits. Other surrounds are the
figures of the four elements, the heavens, the planets,
armillary sphere and eclipses. Appears to have color of the
period. Nice archival framing between plexiglas with text on
back visible. Exceptionally clean and bright with only smudge on
the text side lower margin. Splendid example of an icon of
British cartography. 20.5"H. x 15.5"W. VERY GOOD. FRAMED.
SOLD. I.D.#25859.
AMERICAS DENOTED AS
ISLAND OF "ATLANTIS". SHOWS CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND
  SANSON, GUILLAUME/NICOLAS
SANSON. ATLANTIS INSULA, a Nicolao Sanson antiquitati restituta, nunc demum majori formas delineata, et in decem regna, iuxta decem Neptuni filios distributa. Praeterea insulae, nostraeq. Continentis regiones quibus Imperavere Atlantici Reges; aut quas armis tentavere. ex conatibus geographicis Gulielmi Sanson Nicholai filii. [1669] Cum privilegio reno ad viginti annos lutetiae Parisiorum. Apud autorem in Aedibus regiis
1690 SANSON FILII. PARIS. 1690. OUTLINE HAND COLOR. COPPER
ENGRAVING. "(The words 'reni' and 'in aedibus Regiis: 1690' added to the plate.) Third state (of five) of the unusual map that purports to show the earth about 200,000 years ago before its settlement by humans. The god Neptune had divided up the land masses among his ten sons. The basic map had been the work of the father Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) and the names to parts of the Western Hemisphere after these demigods being the work of his son Guillaume who died in 1703. Fascination with the Atlantis legend caused the map to sell well from between 1669 and 1741. Interest and scholarly
respectability in the "lost continent" or the "Atlantian empire" continued unabated into the late 19th and 20th Centuries. Thule island is shown, believed source of
Nordic races. The triumphant success of Heinrich Schliemann as an archeologist, success that earned him wealth and lasting fame, caused many to accept as fact ancient legends. Schliemann had taken Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and their accounts of the Trojan Wars to be literal truth. He then discovered ancient Troy in Asia Minor. Russian adventuress and telepath Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky took up and defined the Atlantian concept, (Atlantis was first described by Plato about 400 B.C.), and Austrian Guido von List championed its racial implications. Englishman Sir James Churchward contributed the land or island of Mu in the Indian Ocean. While having now lost scholarly credibility, there are still those who defend the existence of Atlantis. They think it now to have been an island in a lake in Bolivia. There are also some who believe such theories as Hollow Earth, Ancient Astronauts, and even Hoerbiger's World Ice Theory. While these may be fanciful, some mainstream archeologists are accepting as fact the writings of the Greek historian Herodotus. Television Xena stories are based on his history. Basic cartography of the mid-Seventeenth Century with California as an island. The map appeals to collectors because the Great Lakes are shown as a thematic version of the prototype Sanson first published in 1650. Original outline color. Fine condition. Tooley, California as an island, map 51; M.S. Pedley, Belle et utile, London, 1992; Burden, map 405; McLaughlin 15.75"H. x 22"W. FINE. $1,500.00. I.D.#21686.
 CHATELAIN, HENRI ABRAHAM (1684-1743). CARTE DU GOUVERNEMENT DE L'AMERIQUE".
H.A. CHATELAIN. PARIS. 1705. MODERN PART COLOR. COPPER ENGRAVING. Finely engraved calligraphic plate from his "Atlas Historique" published about 1705. It lists in chart form the rulers of the various regions of the western hemisphere. Also the
ecclesiastical rulers. Four small engraved vignette views of councils meeting in elegant interiors. Also a small map of the western hemisphere. Shows California as an island. 14.25"H. x 18.25"W. VERY GOOD.
$450.00. I.D.#04918.
CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND
  LA TERRE CONNUE LORSQUE L'EVANGILE FUT PUBLIE. PARIS.
c1740?. HAND OUTLINE COLOR. COPPER ENGRAVING. Unidentified French classical map of the world at the time of Christ and the first century A.D. Attractive. Has California as
an island in World inset. 15.5"H. x 17.3"W. FINE. $450.00. I.D.#04798.
CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND
 MOLL, HERMAN.
A VIEW OF THE GENERAL & COASTING TRADE-WINDS IN THE GREAT SOUTH OCEAN. LONDON. 1744. PART HAND COLOR. COPPER ENGRAVING. Interesting Pacific area map engraved for Dampier's Voyages, Vol.II, No.4." "The Great South Sea". Shows its trade winds from coast of South America and North America. Broad enough to show Florida, Bahamas, Cuba and Jamaica. Also New Mexico (the entire Southwest), New Spain and California as an island. Extends west to China, Siam, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, 'Philipina,'
and 'New Holland' (Australia). Only the northwest coast of
Australia is surveyed. An interesting map as much for what it
doesn't show as what it does. Most small Pacific islands
including Hawaii remained to be discovered; Hawaii thirty years
later, by Capt. Cook. While a bold explorer for the British
Admiralty, Dampier was a former pirate and never forgiven for
it. Sharp impression. Right margin restored. Browned. Skilled
modern color. 5.8"H. x 11.75"W. GOOD.
I.D.#21579.
SOLD.
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