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Title: Partie Meridionale de La Riviere de Missisipi, et ses Environs, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale Author: de Fer, Nicolas Place: Paris Publisher: Date: 1718 Description: Engraved map, light outline color. 46.5x64 cm (18¼x25¼"). Scarce and significant map which includes New Mexico and Florida in addition to the Mississippi basin northwards of its junctures with the Missouri and Illinois rivers, with Lake Erie also shown. To the west New Mexico is depicted in some detail, with many settlements named including Santa Fe and Taos (Teoas). Numerous vignettes of Indian and animal life adorn the map. The map draws heavily on DeLisle's 1703 map of this region; it was also the southwest sheet of a four sheet map of North America. There was a 1715 issue of this map titled "La Rivere De Missisipi, et ses environs, dans L'Amerique Septentrional, " which does not have the vignettes of Indian and animal life, but the geography is essentially the same though there are a few additions. Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps, 169, notes this first issue in his discussion of 1718 issue. Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte Full title: Partie Meridionale de La Riviere de Missisipi, et ses Environs, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale. Mis au jour par N. de Fer Geographe de sa Majeste Catolique 1718 | Echelle [linear scale] Soixante Lieues a vingt au Degré | A Paris chez J.F. Bernard sur le Quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale avec Prive. Du Roy 1718 Watermark : large chaplet with countermark T A . Provenance: California Book Auction, 2/90 Lot Amendments Condition: Some toning to paper, light dampstain in top margin intruding into title, vertical printer's crease through the whole map, still very good. Item number: 267415