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Lot 192
  • 192

North America--Mitchell, John

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Amerique septentrionale avec les routes, distances en miles, villages et etablissements Francois et Anglois. Paris, Le Rouge, 1777, large engraved wall-map in 8 sheets, folding, dissected and backed on linen, original outline colour, total dimensions if joined 355 x 1980mm., housed in morocco-backed box
  • Paper

Catalogue Note

French edition of one of the largest and most important 18th-century maps of America, consulted during the Revolutionary War. The map extends as far west as St Joseph's Bay in Texas, showing Sioux, Padoucas, Panis, Cenis and other Indian lands west of the Mississippi.