Amérique Septentrionale [North America]

Sub-Title
dressée sur les Relations les plus modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs, et divisée suivant les différentes possessions des Européens
Subject

North America, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and the very top of South America. Depicts many boundaries, towns, cities, missions, forts, Native American villages.

Date
1775
Mapmaker
Robert de Vaugondy, [Didier]
Publisher

Robert de Vaugondy, [Didier]

Place of Publication

[Paris]

Accession Number
1982.077.143
Alternate number
Seiferth Collection
Condition
Fair. Much browning, foxing.
Curatorial Notes

Ornate cartouche. Ross states "significant and quite attractive map, now on the scarce side, depicting all of North America, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and the very top of South America. Depicts many boundaries, towns, cities, missions, forts, Native American villages, and tribal territory, mountains, lakes and rivers. See Phhilips Atlases, #619-97."

Insets
Partie Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique
Market Value
1998 Dec: Robert Ross Antiquarian Maps, Views, & Related Books, catalog XIV, $950.00, for first state (of 5), dated 1750 (1757).
1982 appraisal: $500.00
Size
18 3/4 x 23
Storage
c02d04