This large-scale map covers the region from Labrador to the north of Florida, and from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean. It also extends to include the southern end of James Bay, and shows all of Great Lakes and the course of the St. Lawrence. The map provides early detail along the lower portion of the Missouri (alternately the "Pekitanoui") and the upper waters of the Mississippi. It is filled with scores of Indian tribes and villages named and located. The Keweenaw peninsula is named as Kiaonan, and Isle Royale is called I. Minong. The map was based in part on Mitchell's famous map of the United States which appeared earlier in the same year. D'Anville developed his version of the map with an emphasis on French influence on the area, omitting Mitchell's legend and references to English factories in the disputed trans-Allegheny area, and drawing on French sources for additional details over the Mitchell map. The most obvious change, however, is the large inset of the St. Lawrence River basin ("Le Fleure Saint-Laurent") which appears on a separate sheet. D'Anville's usual, superb cartographic detail is seen throughout. A handsome cartouche designed by Gravelot fills the upper left of the map. On four joined sheets.

See also lot 707 for William Cumming's The Southeast in Early Maps that describes this map.

References: Sellers & Van Ee #17; Cumming (SE) #296; Tooley (Amer) p. 316.

Condition: A

A crisp impression on paper with dovecot watermarks that has been professionally backed with archival tissue. There are a couple small rust spots, a printer's crease along the top border, and light dampstaining that is confined to the top blank margin.