Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Le Maire, François, 1675-
2. Cóvens et Mortier

Description

1. 1 map : hand col.; 42 x 58 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
2. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 453 ; 458.

Series statement

1. [Heading West ; 18]

Subject

1. United States -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
2. Louisiana -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
3. Mississippi River Valley -- Maps -- Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 97-6081

Note

1. Covers eastern United States from the Atlantic Ocean and Hudson River Valley to the Rio Grande.
2. Shows some explorers' routes.
3. Relief shown pictorially.
4. Appears in the author's Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde. 1730 and later eds.
5. Includes notes.
6. Inset: Carte particuliere des embouchures de la riviere S. Louis et de la Mobile. Scale [ca. 1:2,700,000].

Indexed in (note)

1. Cumming
2. Phillips
3. Tooley. Mapping of America
4. Variant of Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West

Local note

1. NYPL copy in Map Div. 97-6081 was in Heading West exhibition.

Author

1. L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726.

Title

1. Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi / dressée sur un grand nombre de memoires entr'autres sur ceux de Mr. le Maire, par Guillme. de L'Isle de l'Academie Rle. des Sciences.

Imprint

1. Amsterdam : Chez Jean Cóvens et Corneille Mortier, geographes, [1730?]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:5,250,000] (W 107⁰--W 73⁰/N 46⁰--N 26⁰).

Series

1. [Heading West ; 18]

Indexed in:

1. Cumming 208
2. Phillips 3486 [et al.]
3. Tooley. Mapping of America, p. 22, no. 45
4. Variant of Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 99

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Le Maire, François, 1675-
2. L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726. Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde.
3. Cóvens et Mortier.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 97-6081 [LHS 453]
2. Map Div. 97-6358 [LHS 458]