A. Plan de la Baye de Pensacola dans la Floride, from Le Petit Atlas Maritime, circa 1764, hand color (6.6 x 8.4"). This copperplate engraved chart shows the bay with the tiny village of Pensacola protected by Fort St. Charles and by Fort de Ste. Rose which lies across the bay on a narrow spit of land. It locates a few houses in Pensacola. Soundings and a bit of topographical detail on the coast are all that is shown, locating Pointe au Chevruil, Fontaine, and several rivers including du Gouverneur, de l'Amirante, and du Jourdan. A rococo-style title cartouche incorporates a distance scale. The fleur-de-lys and rhumblines show north to the left. At upper right is "Tome. I. No. 42." Ref: Phillips (A) #3508, v. 1 #42; Sellers & Van Ee #1655. Condition: A sharp impression on a watermarked sheet with minor scattered foxing, most of it concentrated in the blank margins. (A)

B. Plan de la Baye de Pansacola, from Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France, dated 1744, black & white (10.9 x 7.6"). An early chart of Pensacola Harbor, showing the locations of forts St. Charles and St. Rose, as well as soundings and anchorages. This example was engraved from maps and charts brought back to Paris by Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761), a Jesuit historian who explored the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Basin from 1721-22. He was shipwrecked near Pensacola on his way to New Orleans. His detailed notes and scientific observations enlivened the memoir on the explorations, Histoire et Description de la Nouvelle France. The map was engraved by Dheulland in Paris under the direction of Jacques Nicolas Bellin. Ref: Tooley (MCC-96) #720. Condition: Issued folding on watermarked paper with a slightly uneven impression at top left. (B+)

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