Carte Generale du Canada, de la Louisiane, de la Floride, de la Caroline, de la Virginie, de la Nouvelle Angleterre, etc.

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville.

 

Date of original: 1784

Dimensions: 10.24" x 13.98" (50% original), 15.35" x 20.96" (75% original), 20.47" x 27.95" (original size), 25.59" x 34.94" (125% original), 30.71" x 41.93" (150% original).  [Custom sizing also available.  Please contact us for more information.]

Coverage: Scale c. 1:6,000,000

Subject: North America - Discovery and Exploration - Early Works to 1800

Notes:  Relief shown by hachures.  Appears in P. Santini's Atlas Universel (1776 [i.e. 1784]) and published by Remondini as map no. 45 in volume two of the atlas.  Shows the French perception of claims in the New World.  Extends from James Bay to the Gulf of Mexico and west to the Rocky Mountains.  Shows provinces, towns and cities, forts, some trails, American Indian villages and tribal territory.

 

Alan M. Voorhees Collection - The Alan M. Voorhees Map Collection extends from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle through the U.S. Civil War period with the bulk of the collection consisting of pre20th century maps. In a variety of map formats, such as nautical charts and views, the collection focuses primarily on the Chesapeake Bay area and the development of Virginia within the larger geographical and historical contexts of Europe and America.