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"Carte de la Floride, de la Louisiane, et Pays Voisins", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Colonial United States, Louisiana

Period: 1757 (dated)

Publication: La Harpe's l'Histoire Generale des Voyages

Color: Black & White

Size:
11.8 x 8.5 inches
30 x 21.6 cm
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Finely engraved and detailed map of French Louisiana that extends from the Great Lakes and Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico and from Nouveau Mexique to the middle of Florida. The Mississippi River flows dramatically down the center of the map with tributaries including the Ohio River, (l'Oyo ou la Belle), Missouri River, and the Riviere de Moingona in the area of modern-day Des Moines. The map is filled with many Indian names, missions, forts and early settlements. Adorned with a decorative title cartouche.

References: Sellers & Van Ee #75.

Condition: A

Nice impression with full original margins and nice watermark. Some light offsetting that easily erases.

Estimate: $300 - $350

Sold for: $200

Closed on 3/17/2010

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