SANSON World
ORBIS VETUS, et ORBIS VETERIS UTRAQUE CONTINENS, TERRAURMq TRACTUS ARCTICUS, et ANTARCTIUS ex Platone, Theopompo, sive Æliano. Manilio, &c Autore N. Sanson Abbavillæo et Christianiss Galliar Regis Geographo.
Lutetiæ Parisiorum Apud P. Mariette Via D. Jacobi, sub signo spei...1657 Jean Somer Pruthenus sculpebat.
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A seperatly published map in 1657 it later appeared in Nicholas Sanson, Cartes Générales de toutes les parties du Monde, Pierre Mariette, Paris 1657[1658] . A copper-engraved double hemisphere map of the world, with two contingent hemispheres, The Old World and the New, California is shown as an island, modern-day United States is named "Plato's Atlantis Insula".
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