An interesting map of New Spain, in Latin, showing Louisiana demarcated from the Illinois country. On this map is shown knowledge of the Osage, the Missouri, and other tribes; the traditional French trading partners of the St. Louis region.
Bellin restated cartographically French borders before vast territories were ceded away and lost., From Prevost d'Exiles' "Histoire Generale des Voiages." Paris: Didot, 1757
Map of the Northwest North American continent at the time of Lewis and Clark's Expedition. The map is from Patrick Gass's 1810 account of the expedition "Voyage des capitaines Lewis et Clarke : depuis l'embouchure du Missouri, jusqu'à l'entrée de la Colombia dans l'Océan Pacifique ; fait dans les années 1804, 1805 et 1806, par ordre du gouvernement des États-Unis."
Moll, of Dutch or German origin, became along with Senex, one of England’s most prominent mapmakers, creating highly distinctive and elegant representations as his 1720 map of America. As did his contemporary, John Senex (map here), Moll relied on
Popple was an associate of astronomer and mathematician, Edmund Halley, and the advertisement in the inset cartouche for this map stresses that friendship in an endorsement for the map’s accuracy, depicting fields, forts, towns, rivers, bogs, forests, all from St. Louis’s future area, well mapped, showing the Missouri River in detailed positioning, also the Meramec River, Cahokia and Kaskaskia