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Author:   Jean Guérard (*15.. - †1640)

was a French cartographer and hydrographer of the Great Discoveries Era. He lived from the end of the sixteenth century to the first half of the seventeenth century and worked at the Dieppe cartography school.

Map title:  CARTE UNIVERSELLE HYDROGRAPHIQUE, 1634

Description: Map dedicated by the cartographer to Cardinal Richelieu, whose coat of arms figures prominently. Australia is suggested but still unknown territory and, California is shown as an island.