"Kaartje van het Noorder-Deel van America", Lat, Jan de
Subject: Colonial North America
Period: 1747 (circa)
Publication: Atlas Portatif Tres Exact ou Livre de Carte…
Color: Hand Color
Size:
9.5 x 7 inches
24.1 x 17.8 cm
Uncommon, small map featuring California as an island in addition to a rather imaginative Pacific Northwest showing a large inlet with an attached Onbekend Land that stretches across the Pacific, perhaps all the way to Asia. The Mississippi River has a tributary loosely drawn from Lahontan's Riviere Longue, here named the Moingona R. The map is filled with minutely engraved place-names, and is enhanced with a simple compass rose.
References: McLaughlin #232.
Condition: B+
Original color on watermarked paper with faint toning along the folds. There is a light printer's crease at bottom.
