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Auction 192, Lot 190

"Floride", Mallet, Alain Manesson

Subject: Colonial Southern United States

Period: 1683 (circa)

Publication: Description de l’Univers

Color: Hand Color

Size:
4.5 x 5.9 inches
11.4 x 15 cm
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Based largely on the earlier maps of Sanson and Duval, this map of the southern United States provides minimal detail from the Mississippi Valley to Florida. It retains the spurious May Lake and an incorrect location and course of the Mississippi River. Florida is Tegesta. St. Augustine and St. Mathieu are named along the eastern coast of Florida. A drape style title cartouche adorns the map. This example has been trimmed to the neatline and pasted on another page from the same publication.

References: Burden #568; Cumming (SE) #95; Pastoureau, MANESSON-MALLET I A [635].

Condition: B+

There are minor abrasions in the title cartouche and just south of the Rio Grande and light soiling.

Estimate: $275 - $350

Sold for: $170

Closed on 4/26/2023

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