File:Carte de Suisse- ou sont les cantons de Zurich, Berne, Lucerne, Uri, Schwitz, Underwald, Zug, Glaris, Basle, Fribourg, Soleurre (MAPS 119).jpg

English:

Copper engraving handcolored with watercolor.

Outline color.

Relief shown pictorially.

Printed along top border: "Carte De Suisse ou Sont les Cantos de Zurich, Berne, Lucerne, Uri, Schwitz, Underwald, Zug, Glaris, Basle, Fribourg, Soleurre, Schaffouse et Appenzel Les Alliez qui sont la Ville de Bienne, lAbb'e et la Ville de S Gal, Grise, de Cadee et des Dix Droitures Le Pays de Valais, l'Eveché de Basle, Mulhausen, Neuchatel, Geneve. Dressée sur les memoires de Mr. Merveilleux Coner. Secr. Interprete de S M.T. C. aux Grisons Par Guillaume Del Isle de l'Academie Rle. des Sciences."

Printed in bottom right corner outside map border: "A Paris chez l'Auteur sur le Quay de l'Horloge avec Privilege Aout 1715."

Printed in upper right corner beneath coat of arms is a dedication to Monsieur Claude Theophile de Beziade: "A Son Exellence Monsieur Claude Theophile de Beziade Chevalier Marqui d'Avaray LIuetenant general des armées du Roy et Ambassadeur de S.M.T.C. au prez des louables Cantons Suisses et leurs Alliex."

Printed in lower right corner is a key explaining symbols used for villages, burgs, abbeys, chateaus, Catholic areas, Protestant areas, areas of mixed religions, baths, vineyards, Episcopal villages, rivers, waterfalls, cart roads, and difficult roads.

Printed in the upper left corner is an "Avertissement" describing the cantons of Switzerland depicted: "Les Cantos Suisses et leurs Alliez sont nomméz dans le Titre…"

Printed at the bottom of the key: "Quoi que cette Carte soit plus correcte qu'aucune de cettes qui ont paru jusqu'au jourdlun on ne se flate pas qu'elle soit parfait, et l'on prie ceux qui y remarqueront quelque faunt d'ortographe ou de position den averter l'Auteur qui ne manquera pas de les corriger."

Printed in the center of the top is a scale of Swiss common leagues.

Written in ink in upper right corner: "No. 41."

Depicts cantons in Switzerland in detail. Includes Lake Geneva and Lake Constance as well as many smaller lakes and rivers throughout. Uses pictorial symbols for mountains, vineyards, villages, lakes and abbeys. Printed along the top border within the title are coats of arms for each canton in Switzerland. Printed in the upper right corner above a dedication to Monsieur Claude Theophile de Beziade is a coat of arms adorned with two lions and a crown.

Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726) was a cartographer and the Premier Geographer to the King in France beginning in 1718. His family played a significant part in the world of French cartography in the eighteenth century. At age 9, he drew his first map and at age 27 he became a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences. He studied under Jacques Cassini, acquiring knowledge in both mathematics and astronomy. Due to his academic background and his "critical approach to the maps of his predecessors," he became known as the first "scientific cartographer" (Moreland and Bannister, 132). Among his works are "Globe, map of the world and the four continents" (1700), "Atlas de Géographie" (1700-12), "Mississippi" (1701), "Carte du Mexique et de la Floride…" (c.a. 1703), "Carte de la Louisiane et du Mississippi" (1718) and posthumously, "Atlas Noveau" (1730 and later). Following his death, his widow took up the business with a partner, Philippe Buache (Tooley 395; Moreland and Bannister, 131-2). This particular map was most likely published in de L'Isle's "Atlas de Géographie" (David Rumsey Cartography Associates). Source(s): David Rumsey Cartography Associates. "David Rumsey Collection. Carte de Suisse ou sont les Cantons de Zurich, Berne, Lucerne, Uri, Sc…" Accessed 19 Mar 2009. Moreland, Carl and David Bannister. "Antique Maps: A Collector's Handbook." New York: Longman Group, Ltd., 1983. Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979.

• Subjects (LCSH): Switzerland-Maps-Early works to 1800.