Engraved map, colored in outline, figures in title cartouche and cartouche for Advertissement colored. 45x59 cm (17½x23¼"). Second issue.

Present New Mexico and parts of Old Mexico, with some of the "Isle de Californie." The map focuses on the Rio Grande valley, an area that was little known due to the secrecy and the obscurity of the region within the Spanish colonial empire.
The advertissement provides a brief description and history. In addition there are a number of interesting notes on the map. One notes that some people believe that California is a peninisula (rather than an Island as portrayed). Another note states that the Rio du Norte flows into the Gulf of Mexico and not the Gulf of California. The map extends N-S from about 42° to 29°; and E-W, 245° to 275° east longitude (prime meridian not stated). This is second issue of the map - the first issue of this map lacks the words "Corrigée et augmentée Par le Sr. Tillemon"; has the address Rue S. Jacques; and lacks the  phrase "Vers le Pont Neuf" after "Victoires".

Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte

Full title: Le Nouveau Mexique appelé aussi Nouvelle Grenade et Marata, Avec Partie de Californie, Selon les Memoires les plus Nouveaux. Par le Pere Coronelli Cosmographe de la SSme. Republique de Venise. Corrigée et augmentée Par le Sr. Tillemon  A Paris  Chez J.B. Nolin sur le Quai de l'Horologe à l'Enseigne de la Place des Victoires Vers le Pont Neuf Avec Privilege de Roy 168[8] | Advertissement --- | [linear scales]

Watermark : Chaplet; countermark similar, but not identical to Heawood 240. Scale about 75 miles to an inch.

This was issued between 1687 and 1689, making 1688 reasonable. The next issue came out sometime between 1697 and 1704, the precise dated depending upon when Nolin moved to "proche Pont Neuf". There is a later issue, dated 1742. The geography and legends appear to be the same on these three issues. This is written up in a letter which I sent to Tooley in 1969.

Provenance: Nebenzahl, 10/66

References:  Wheat Transmississippi 66; Wagner Northwest Coast 430; Streeter 138; McLaughlin 99