This is a very uncommon map of the Americas by one of the most prominent English cartographers of the late 18th century. The map is a compendium of important discoveries with numerous interesting notations such as, "Opening discovered by Juan de Fuca in 1592 in this Opening is an Island with a High Mountain in the Form of a Pillar" off the northwest coastline of North America. This opening connects to The West Sea, which is named but not delineated. Other notations mark where Hudson was set adrift in the bay that was named for him, and the conjectural River of the West. A color key at lower right identified the various colonial possessions.

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Condition: B

Nice impression and original outline color. There are a few minor spots and a nearly invisible, clean slice cut 2" into the map just left of the centerfold at bottom, closed with archival tape.