(4 Map / Chart Set- USA, Canada, Great Lakes): Canada Louisiane et Terres Angloises

by D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon

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Book Description

Paris: D'Anville, 1755. Very good, b &w, as issued. Each of the 4 images (centerfolds as issued) measures about 18.5x22 inches. This set is a significant map in the 18th century history of North America , and is the French "cartographic answer" to Mitchell's map of this region, issued earlier in the same year.. One of the sheets is basically a chart of the St. Lawrence River. The areas of the Great Lakes is quite elaborate, and there are many Native American regions designated. There are 5 separate scales. There are nice images of Acadie and Newfoundland. Slight marginal chipping to sheet with eastern USA coast.This is a very scarce set, from one of the finest cartographers of the European enlightenment. This set was published under the auspices of the Duke d'Orleans. D'Anville was precocious in his first drawn map and age of appointment to the Royal Academy (see both the revised edition of 'Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers' and Moreland & Bannister's 'Antique Maps'). The finest collection of his maps in held by the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. These maps were engraved by de la Haye. Ref: Cumming 296 (for some reason the Kershaw entry, which refers back to Cumming, indicates 2 sheets; Cumming clearly indicates all 4). .

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