Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles du Cours et des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi. Dresée Sur un grand nombre de memoires principalemt sur ceux de Mrs. d'Iberville et le Sueur. Par Guillaume Del'Isle Geographer de l'Academie Royale des Scie[n]ces A Paris Chéz l'Auteur sur le Quaide l'Horloge Privilege du Roy po.20 ans 1703
Creator
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726, cartographer Simonneau, Charles, 1645-1728, engraver
Contributor
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller Museum Book Store
Kashnor notes, "Shows the country which soon afterwards belonged to the Mississippi Company, and gives a good map of New Mexico, locating Santa Fe and Taos." Ambiguous California, Colorado flows into Gulf of California, but at an angle. Floride and Nouvelle France merge in midcountry, English colonies hug the east coast, Mexico extends south to Panama. This is the second state per Rosenthal. See 093:465M for a later state of this map. Cartouche with natives. Erasures in scale area and inside cartouche.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Chained maltese cross I D with castle?. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. References: Cumming 137; Wheat 84; Tooley (Amer.) p.23; Schwartz pl.82; Wagner 474.. Verso Text: MS note: 464.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 map ; hand col. ; 48 x 65 cm., sheet 52 x 72 cm.
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