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Desnos - Map of the Americas [L'Amerique Meridionale et Septentrionale] - This map is Louis-Charles Desnos’s L’Amerique Meridionale et Septentrionale . It was published by him in Paris in 1766. It is based upon Guillame Danet’s map of 1731, which in turn was based on Delisle’s map of the Americas. The map includes a border of famous European explorers and conquerors, and the bottom left of the map includes short description on each of them. The bottom right of this map includes theories on the Northwest Passage, the answer to which had eluded Europeans at the time. Louis-Charles Desnos (1725-1805) was a French map-maker based in Paris. For a time, he was the Royal Globemaker to Christian VII of Denmark. He was known to have published a very large volume of work, which often put him at odds with rival map-makers and gave him a poor reputation for accuracy during his own time. Paper Size: ~ 29 1/4” by 21” (Fold Out) Paper Type or Special Features: Engraving with Original Wash Color (Possible later hand-coloring to cartouche)