JEAN BOISSEAU (French, fl. 1637-1658)
DESCRIPTION DE LA NOVVELLE FRANCE
Paris: Jean Boisseau, 1643
Engraving, hand colored, 35.0 x 55.0 cm
Osher Collection

"Boisseau took Champlain's large map of 1632 and reduced it in size to make a more commercially viable product. He was, after all, a commercial cartographer and not a navigator. Although eleven years had passed since Champlain's original map had been published, Boiseau did not try to add any new details or place-names from any of the English or other French voyages. Instead, as has almost always been the case in commercial mapmaking, he simply copied his source directly.

One benefit of Boisseau's reduction of Champlain's map is that it is now easier to contrast the configuration of New England on Champlain's original and later maps. "

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From: University of Southern Maine