Beautifully engraved large map of the colonies between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Atlantic with an inset at upper left that continues the main map from Cape Fear south through the Carolinas and Georgia to F. St. Georges. It is based on the seminal map by John Mitchell, published in 1755, the same year this plate was initially engraved. The mapping of the trans-Allegheny and Great Lakes regions and in the interior of New England is of particular interest, for this shows some of the earliest accurate information of these regions incorporating data from the Mitchell, Evans, and Fry-Jefferson maps. Also of great interest is the region known as the Forks of the Ohio (confluence of the Allegheny and Monomgahela rivers) and the location of French Fort Duquesne – the region hotly disputed during the French and Indian War. This is an unrecorded state in between the first and second, retaining the final line below the title ("Avec Privilege 1755") but adding several changes present on the second state, such as the 1763 Treaty of Paris boundary shown as a dotted line. Pennsylvania extends to take in most of present-day New York, and in New England New-Hamp-Shire and Prov. De Sagadahock have been added. It is embellished with a large title cartouche engraved by Marie Catherine Haussard.

References: Cumming (SE) #295; McCorkle #755-37; Pedley #469; Sellers & Van Ee #718.

Condition: B+

On watermarked paper with faint damp stains that enter the map image in three places at bottom and left. A short tear in the damp stain near the title cartouche has been repaired with archival materials.