REFINE     Who What Where When     REMOVE Louisiana North America WHAT Separate Map (2) Atlas Map (1) Book Map (1) Classical (1) Exploration (1) More  WHERE Canada (2) United States (2) Alabama (1) More  WHO Anville, Jean Baptiste Bo … (1) Aubers, J.B.L. (1) Bernard, Robert (1) Bibliographischen Institu … (1) Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856 (1) More  WHEN 1720 (1) 1775 (1) 1782 (1) 1850 (1) 1852 (1)

REFINE  Browse All : Images of Louisiana and North America 1-4 of 4 Meyer, Joseph, 1796-185... Die Staaten von Arkansa... 1850 World Atlas   Author Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856 Note Engraved outline hand color map. Shows administrative boundaries, cities and towns. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Greenwich and Washington. Pages, Pierre Marie Fra... Carte d'une partie de l... 1782 Exploration Book   Author [Pages, Pierre Marie François, 1748-1793, Bernard, Robert] Note Uncolored map, showing part of Louisiana, Texas, the Gulf Coast and Mexico. Showing exploration routes, settlements, villages, missions, and rivers. Relief shown pictorially. Includes legend. Pages accompanied the Spanish Governor of Texas on a Journey from New Orleans to Natchitoches and on to San Antonio by way of the Red River in 1767. The book includes a 15 page account of Texas. Humboldt notes Pages' visit to Saltillo in 1767 in his seminal work on New Spain. The map tracks Pages journey from New Orleans to Acapulco, first up the Red River, then overland, identifying a number of Missions and other settlements and Indian Villages in Texas and Louisiana. Anville, Jean Baptiste ... Partie occidentale du C... 1775 Separate Map   Author Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 Note Santini's edition of Anville's 1755 map - see our 2603.032, although here as a separate map instead of the Anville formulation as a part of a four sheet map of Canada and Lousiana. Hand colored copper engraving map of the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi region, extends east to include Lake Ontario, North to James Bay and Southeast to Philadelphia. Shows numerous French forts throughout, along with numerous place and Indian names. Chicagon [sic] is named. Relief shown pictorially. Includes Elaborate title cartouche. Seutter, Matthaeus, 167... Accurata delineatio cel... 1720 Separate Map   Author [Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756, Rogg, Gottfried, 1669-1742] Note Hand colored map of Seutter's Mississippi Bubble map, depicting the short-lived French financial-colonial scheme masterminded by Scottish financier John Law. Map shows early eighteenth century geography, settlements, and territories in North America focusing on the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. Relief shown pictorially. Includes historical notes and distant chart. A large inset of the Gulf Coast shows many forts and Indian villages. Elaborate title cartouche, depicts an allegorical, satirical scene of the infamous Mississippi Bubble investment scheme with a female personification of the Mississippi River pouring jewels and riches forth, while she is perched precariously upon a bubble. Cherubs above the cartouche are issuing stock for the company, and another group is blowing bubbles in the foreground surrounded by piles of worthless stocks. In the background, desperate investors climb a small tree and fling themselves out of it, and in the foreground more disconsolate investors wail and bemoan their fates as one tries to impale himself on his sword. Above them, a cherub upends an empty money-bag. 1-4 of 4

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