Buy this book on-line De L'Isle, Guillaume : Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressee sur un grand nombre de Memoires entr'autres sur ceux de M. Le Maire
Covens & Mortier, Amsterdam, 1730
Original Hand Coloring, Excellent, with superb original colouring., Size : 450x600 (mm), 17.75x23.625 (Inches)
With an inset, titled "Carte Particuliere des Embouchures de la Riviere S.Louis et de la Mobile".
"This map was first issued by Guillaume de l'Isle in 1718, the illustration showing a close copy, published in Amsterdam during the 1740's. The detail of this Covens and Mortier issue is essentially unaltered from the original French issue, and illustrates several important features: its accurate mapping of the entire Mississippi system, the chief authority, in fact, for half a century; the upper Mississippi and Ohio Rivers with their several tributaries; indications of the Missouri River, much of this information having been gathered direct from French explorers and fur-traders. Also indicated are Texas, shown by the 'Mission de los Teijas' established in 1716; New Orleans, founded in 1718; an overview of Hernando de Soto's explorations in the Southeast in 1539-1542. Alonso de Leon's in 1689, as well as French tracels in 1716 by St Denis. De l'Isle's map aused angry English reaction on its first appearance. Note that France claims practically all of North America to the west of the Appalatians, the English seaboard colonies deliberately reduced in extent and scale. A little fantasy, however, creeps in by way of the Michigan peninsula, with the long range of Mountains along its central area." -Goss, Goss, The Mapping of North America, Map 51
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