Carte Generale du Monde, ou Description du Monde Terrestre & Aquatique

Amsterdam: Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, [1729]. Loose leaf. Fine. Pierre Mortier, Jan van Luchenburg, Jean Covens, Corneille Mortier. Image size: 16 x 18 1/2 inches. Pierre Mortier's unique world map drawn on Mercator's projection with CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND and the "Detroit d'Anian" connected by dotted lines through the NORTHWEST PASSAGE to Buttons Bay located to the west of Hudson Bay. In the Pacific is a small coastline of New Zealand. The northeast coast of Asia is severely truncated. Australia's northern coast is shown connected to New Guinea, along with a part of Van Diemen's Land. Across the top of the map are five spheres depicting Day and Night, the Flood, the phases of the moon, and a double hemisphere of the globe depicting the Western and Eastern hemispheres. The map was precisely engraved by Jan van Luchenburg, with his name at the lower left and the Covens and Mortier imprint at the lower right. Text in French and Dutch. A clean and well struck copy in fine condition, professionally conserved matted (dark blue) and framed. See Shirley #427, #622. Frame size: 22 1/8 x 25 inches. A fine Covens & Mortier world map with depictions of the legendary Northwest Passage and California as an Island.