This is a French version of Kitchin's Mexico or New Spain in Which the Motions of Cortes May Be Traced. California is labeled New Albion (Nouvelle Albion) with no detail outside of a few coastal place names. The region of present-day Arizona and New Mexico is well delineated with numerous Indian villages and the locations of missions. The area from New Mexico to Louisiana is named as Grand Espace de Terre Inconnue ("Great Space of Land Unknown"). The small Texas settlement of Cenis is north of the Nou. Royaume de Leon. An inset shows Mexico City on the large Lake of Mexico. Finely engraved with a decorative title cartouche and compass rose. This is the scarce Amsterdam edition of this map, engraved by H. Klockhoff, with a different cartouche and a more delicate line than the Benard edition.

References: cf. Wheat (TMW) #172.

Condition: B+

A crisp impression issued folding with light foxing at right.