This detailed map of the Mississippi stretches from Lake Winnipeg to the Gulf of Mexico. It was published in the second volume of Giacomo Constantino Beltrami's A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, Leading to the Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River; with a Description of the Whole Course of the Former, and of the Ohio (1828), the English translation of his La Decouverte des Sources du Mississippi et de la Riviere Sanglante (1824). Beltrami accompanied Major Stephen Long on an expedition to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River. Once the party reached Pembina, Beltrami broke away from the expedition with some Ojibwe guides and discovered Lake Julia in present-day Minnesota, which he claimed was the source of the Mississippi and the Red River of the North. Long later wrote that Beltrami "recently published a book which we notice merely on account of the fictions and misrepresentations which it contains;" the French edition of Beltrami's account was so heavily lambasted that the English edition included his response to the critics in the preface. Beltrami's route is traced on the map, and portages, forts, and villages are noted. There is much detail and several notations around the lakes of Minnesota. Published by Hunt & Clarke.

References: Howes #B-338; Sabin #4605; Wagner-Camp #26a:2.

Condition: B+

Issued folding with light toning and offsetting and a few very short fold separations. There are several additional short fold separations confined to the blank margins and a small binding trim in the bottom blank margin.