Subject: Colonial Louisiana, Mississippi River
Period: 1764 (circa)
Publication: Le Petit Atlas Maritime
Color: Black & White
Size:
13.9 x 8.5 inches
35.3 x 21.6 cm
This is an uncommon map of the Mississippi River delta and the coastline to Mobile Bay. The map shows the course of the Mississippi up to the Iberville River, near present-day Baton Rouge, and also locates New Orleans, Lake Pontchartrain, Biloxi, and more. The English Turn (Detour des Anglois) is noted south of New Orleans. Decorated with a fine compass rose, rhumb lines with fleur-de-lys, and decorative title cartouche.
References: Lemmon, Magill & Wiese #30.
Condition: B+
On watermarked paper with light toning along the centerfold and sheet edges.