CALIFORNIA 49

California Map Society, Occasional Paper No. 6

Warren Heckrotte, Editor, and Julie Sweetkind, Assistant Editor
with the Book Club of California
ISBN: 0-1-888126-01-9
Copyright (c) 1999 by the California Map Society

Developed by members of the California Map Society, this book contains forty-nine maps of California from the sixteenth century to the present.  It includes a thorough description of each map and is no longer in print. To present it here most effectively for research, the sections, maps and related descriptions are available individually from the links listed below. The entire book will be available here in this format as time allows.

California 49

Cover and Credits
Table of Contents
History of the California Map Society
Preface
Foreward
Map 1, Novae Insulae, XVII Nova Tabula, Sebastian Munster, 1540
Map 2, Piloto Me Fecit en Mexico, Domingo del Castillo, 1541
Map 3, Universale della Parte del Mondo Nuovamente Ritrouata, Giacomo Gastaldi, 1556
Map 4, Il Disegno del Discoperto della Noua Franza, Paolo Forlani, 1566
Map 5, Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, Abraham Ortelius, 1570
Map 6, Vera Totius Expeditionis Nauticae Descriptio D. Franc. Draci, Jodocus Hondius, 1595
Map 7, Granata Nova et California, Cornelius van Wytfliet, 1597
Map 8, Puerto Bueno de San Diego, Enrico Martinez, 1603
Map 9, The North Part of America, Henry Briggs, 1625
Map 10, Audience de Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, Etc., Nicolas Sanson, 1657
Map 11, Passage par Terre a la Californie, Father Eusebio Kino, 1705
Map 12, Hemisphere Septentrional, Guillaume Delisle, 1714

And more to come ...

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