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Auction 99, Lot 125

"Il Paese de Cherachesi, con la Parte Occidentale della Carolina Settentrioanle, e della Virgina", Zatta, Antonio

Subject: Colonial South

Period: 1778 (published)

Publication: Atlante Novissimo…

Color: Hand Color

Size:
16.5 x 12.2 inches
41.9 x 31 cm
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This is one sheet of Zatta's version of John Mitchell's epic map. The whole map was titled "Le Colonie Unite dell' America Settentrle" and published as a set of twelve individual maps. This sheet provides a detailed view of the forks of the Missouri and Ohio Rivers along the Mississippi and adjacent areas. While the map is filled with Indian villages, it shows very little European settlement other than a couple of French forts and Dr. Thomas Walker's settlement. Dr. Walker, surveyor for the Ohio and Loyal Land Companies, led a small group into the area in 1750 and established a supply post in the area of present-day Barbourville, Kentucky. Several blocks of explanatory Italian text fill the map.

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Condition: A

Tiny bit of faint foxing, still very good.

Estimate: $375 - $425

Sold for: $325

Closed on 6/12/2002

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