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Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi
Title
Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi
Date
1718
Description
Guillaume De l’Isle’s “Map of Louisiana and the Mississippi River” is one of the most famous maps in American history, what cartographers call, because of its accuracy and eloquence, a “mother map,” a map in this case that spurred great imitation, innovation, and political thought. The map was originally published in 1718, the year this mapmaker was appointed Chief Geographer to the King (Louis
Carte de la Louisiane cours du Mississipi et Pays Voisins
Title
Carte de la Louisiane cours du Mississipi et Pays Voisins
Date
1744
Description
With numerous botanical illustrations and splendid maps by hydrographer, Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, Charlevoix represents a culmination in the middle of the eighteenth century of what the French knew, or thought they knew, about North America and its rivers and varied lands drained by them. He was sent to North America to find a route to the Pacific and through years of travel and study recommended doing this by the ascent of the Missouri River or through the establishment of posts along traditional native trading routes in Canada, through strategic stepping stones. Charlevoix and Bellin set out to prove that the Missouri and the Mississippi had basically the same headwaters, and the maps in these volumes reflect that thinking in the supposed nearness of the sources of both rivers. The Great Lakes through a vast system not only were connected to the Atlantic but to the Pacific as well. the works of the French explorers and cartographers heavily interested Thomas Jefferson. Charlevoix considered the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers the finest in the world., Statement of Responsibility: Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France : avec le Journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amérique Septentrionnale / par le P. de Charlevoix.
A Map of Louisiana and the River Mississipi
Title
A Map of Louisiana and the River Mississipi
Date
1719, 1721
Description
Europeans of the early eighteenth century. Map is from ca. 1719.
A New and Accurate Map of the British Dominions in America according to the Treaty of 1763
Title
A New and Accurate Map of the British Dominions in America according to the Treaty of 1763
Date
1763
Description
From: An historical journal of the campaigns in North-America for the years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760 : containing the most remarkable occurrences of that period, particularly the two sieges of Quebec, &c. &c., the orders of the admirals and general officers, descriptions of the countries where the author has served, with their forts and garrisons, their climates, soil, produce, and a regular
A New Map of the North Parts of America Claimed by France Under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississippi, Canada, and New France...
Title
A New Map of the North Parts of America Claimed by France Under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississippi, Canada, and New France...
Date
1720
Description
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

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