Subject: Colonial Eastern United States
Period: 1747 (circa)
Publication: A Complete System of Geography
Color: Black & White
Size:
16.5 x 13.6 inches
41.9 x 34.5 cm
This beautifully detailed map extends west to the Rio Grande and features oversized Great Lakes, with Texas labeled Country of the Cenis, and "Louisiana" placed over the entire southern Mississippi River Valley. Teeming with information, the sheet names missions, Indian villages and tribes, and numerous rivers. Little trees dot nearly the whole map. A long note gives credit for the geography of the French portion of the map to the French cartographer Jacques Bellin. A large, decorative title cartouche featuring a native and a compass rose ornament the blank western area of the map.
References: McCorkle (18th C. Geog. Books) #17-28 (Vol II); Phillips (A) #603-2-58; Lemmon, Magill & Wiese (Charting Louisiana) #25.
Condition: A
A dark impression on a bright sheet with a touch of soiling.