• Cram's township and rail road map of California

Creator:

• Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786

Contributor:

• Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784

Date:

• 1779

Extent:

• (W 130⁰--W 110⁰/N 50⁰--N 20⁰).
• 5 maps on 1 sheet ; 29 x 35 cm.

Language:

• French

Spatial:

• West (U.S.)
• Mexico

Subject:

• California—Maps—Early works to 1800
• Mexico—Maps—Early works to 1800
• Historical maps—California
• Historical maps—Mexico .
• Maps

Description:

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Shows 5 representations on 1 sheet of California, representing its delineation between 1604 and 1767.
• "La Côte orientale depuis le C. des Vierges jusqu'à l'embouchure du R. Colorado est extraite de la Carte du P. Ferdinand Gonsaque dressée en 1746."
• "Suppl, 5e Carte."
• Appears in the Supplement to Diderot's Encyclopédie.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/k0698912r

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9954136963506421

Call number:

• D-Alcove 2, drawer 10, HMC01.3816

Location:

• Special Collections D-Alcove 2, drawer 10, HMC01.3816

Source acquisition:

• Historic Maps copy is gift of Robert A. McCabe, Princeton class of 1956.

Cartographic scale:

• Scales differ