Etats-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale Avec les Isles Royale, De Terre Neuve, De St. Jean, L'Acadie &C.

Reference: MMS30
Author Gilles Robert de VAUGONDY
Year: 1785
Zone: North America
Printed: Paris
Measures: 660 x 505 mm
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Reference: MMS30
Author Gilles Robert de VAUGONDY
Year: 1785
Zone: North America
Printed: Paris
Measures: 660 x 505 mm
Not Available

Description

Scarce early map of the newly created United States, with a note which includes 10 new proposed states proposed by Thomas Jefferson--Silvania, Michigania, Chersonesus, Arsenistpia, Metropotamia, Illinoia, Saratoga, Washington, Polypotamia, and Pelisypia.

Geographically the map covers from James Bay and Labrador to Florida and the Bahamas, as well as from the Rio de Norte (Rio Grande) to the Atlantic seaboard and Newfoundland.

The map is highly detailed, extending to the Rio Grande and including notes on the Sioux Indians and the Country of the Padoucas.

Extensive notes throughout, including notes on early explorers such as De Soto and La Sale, Indians, Forts and other points of early interest.

Mississippi is marked as the western border, but the map extents till Mexico and naming "Tecas".

Gilles Robert de VAUGONDY (1688 - 1766)

Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723-1786) was appointed Geographer to Louis XV in 1760. At the same time, de Vaugondy served as Geographer to the Duke of Lorraine and Bar, father-in-law to Louis XV and former King of Poland. His major contributions to French cartography are the Atlas Universel, 1750-57, The Nouvelle Atlas Portatif (1784) and a very popular map of North America published in 1761. He was son of Gilles Robert de Vaugondy who succeeded Pierre Sanson as the King's Geographer.

Gilles Robert de VAUGONDY (1688 - 1766)

Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723-1786) was appointed Geographer to Louis XV in 1760. At the same time, de Vaugondy served as Geographer to the Duke of Lorraine and Bar, father-in-law to Louis XV and former King of Poland. His major contributions to French cartography are the Atlas Universel, 1750-57, The Nouvelle Atlas Portatif (1784) and a very popular map of North America published in 1761. He was son of Gilles Robert de Vaugondy who succeeded Pierre Sanson as the King's Geographer.