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Auction 164, Lot 374

"La Parte Orientale dell' Antico, e Nuovo Messico con la Florida e la Bassa Luigiana...", Cassini, Giovanni Maria

Subject: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean & Southern United States

Period: 1798 (dated)

Publication: Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale

Color: Black & White

Size:
13.8 x 18.8 inches
35.1 x 47.8 cm
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This is the eastern sheet of Cassini's two sheet map depicting the southern United States, Mexico and Central America. This map, with its own borders, covers from Florida west to Texas and from the Yucatan Peninsula south to the tip of northern South America. The extensive river systems in the southern United States is well represented, although the Mississippi River is not connected to the Missouri River. A number of place names are given, including Cenis in Texas, New Orleans, and Biloxi. Florida is still shown as an archipelago. The map is decorated by a pictorial cartouche featuring Spanish Conquistadors on horseback arriving in an Indian village.

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Condition: A

A dark impression on a clean sheet of watermarked paper with very faint toning along the centerfold.

Estimate: $800 - $1,000

Unsold

Closed on 9/13/2017

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