Subject: Western Hemisphere - America
Period: 1784 (circa)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
25 x 18.2 inches
63.5 x 46.2 cm
This large, handsome map of North and South America is an Italian edition of Janvier's map. Its most striking feature is the huge Sea of the West, which extends out of the top border, and is connected by a series of rivers to Hudson Bay in the north and nearly connects to the Mississippi River in the south. The large decorative title cartouche shows a stream filled with unusual beaver dams and a pine tree on one bank and palm trees on the other. This is the second state, published by Francesco Santini and Giuseppe Antonio Remondini.
References: McGuirk #162.
Condition: B+
On a watermarked sheet with light toning and soiling.