The East Coast of America with inset maps of the Upper Mississippi and Louisiana & Florida:  Canada et Louisiane 

Original copperplate engraved map
Fine outline handcoloring
383 x 495 mm
Map # AM-191
$ 2,250
 

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This is an uncommon broadsheet map of eastern North America.

The map shows the British American Colonies and French Canada, with insets of the Mississippi, Louisiana and a view of Niagara Falls. This map clearly shows a French bias and portraits a greatly reduced British presence in North America. Fort Duquesne is show in two places on the map, according to D’Anville and Jefferys. Crossed swords mark the battles between the French and British at Fort Duquesne and Crown Point, below Lake Champlain.

This map was published by George Louis Le Rouge's in his Atlas Ameriquain in 1755. This is the first state of the map. There were three later states of this map. It was last published in 1787.

Mapforum.com 14, “Collations: Histories of the American War”. McCorkle, Barbara. New England in Early Printed Maps: 1513-1800, Map #755.23.

Very Fine Condition.  Traces of the folds for insertion into the book but the folds are all solid with no paper repairs.