It’s isn’t one map. It’s over 700.
Apparently, the old cartographers in the 17th and 18th centuries came to some sort of consensus that California wasn’t a part of the American mainland. Oh, it wasn’t far off sure, but it wouldn’t be a quick swim to go from New Mexico to the “east coast” of the Island of California.
According to the LA Times:
The maps, of course, depict a mistake: They show California as an island off the coast of North America, reflecting the beliefs of some explorers and cartographers from the 17th and 18th centuries. But the maps’ beauty and oddity had attracted the attention of Glen McLaughlin, a Northern California businessman who began buying and collecting hundreds of them over the last four decades.
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