Amplissimae Regionis Mississipi
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A good example of an attractive and desirable map of the greater part of North America then known. Johann Baptist Homann was the dominant German mapmaker/publisher of the eighteenth century whose maps, although derivative, were produced in a distinctive style with large decorated cartouches and, invariably full wash colour. This map follows De L'Isle's famous prototype of 1718 giving detail into the mid-west and Spanish south west, thus incorporating the Texas area and the Great Lakes. With a large vignette of a buffalo and Indians at the right and decorated title cartouche with full-length images including Father Louis Hennepin, the Jesuit traveller and missionary, and a view of the Niagara Falls as recorded by the Jesuit. A light, but even, printing with attractive overall wash colour.
region: Eastern North America |
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