Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi


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Title: Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Inclusive Dates: 1730
Language(s): French
Extent: 1 item(s)
Extent: 1 map : color ; 44 x 60 cm.
Collection Number: hmap1730d4
Repository: Hargrett Map Collection

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Covers eastern United States from the Atlantic Ocean and Hudson River Valley to the Rio Grande; Shows the route of Hernando de Soto and other explorers; Relief shown pictorially; Appears in the author's Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde. 1730 and later eds.; Inset: Carte particuliere des embouchures de la riviere S. Louis et de la Mobile. Scale [ca. 1:2,700,000]; De Renne dates this map to 1718, erroneously according to Cummings-De Vorsey, who dates it ca. 1730; From: De L'Isle, G. Atlas nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde... Amsterdam, 1733, no. 59; Phillips, Atlases, 580, no. 59; Lowery, no. 269; De Renne, 1195; Publication: Amsterdam : Chez Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, geographes, [1730?]

Subject Terms

Louisiana -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.

Maps (documents)

Mississippi River Valley -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.

North America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.

North American Indians -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.

Southern States -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi

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