Map of the British and French Settlements in North America, A

Earlier catalog work sheets notes this was printed in "A General Magazine of Arts and Sciences," published by Benjamin Martin. Part of the "war of maps" waged by England and France during the first half of the 18c; this cartographic confrontation culminated with the French and Indian War (known as the Seven Years' War in Europe), which in turn ended with the expulsion of France from the North American continent. This particular map was Emanuel Bowen's response to Bellin's "Carte de la Louisiane et des Pays Voisins." It includes, in the upper left corner, a legend asserting that Vitginia and New England extend "from the Atlantic ocean to the South sea."