A New Map Of The North Parts Of America Claimed By France ...
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A good example of this famous two-sheet map of all known North America. Herman Moll's map represents the principal English cartographic counter-blast to French mapmakers who had previously depicted France as owning all the land watered by the Mississippi and its tributaries, thus limiting the English to a narrow belt of land along the eastern seaboard. The French maps had also laid claim to the Carolinas as a French possession, by right of prior discovery. These rival territorial claims eventually culminated in the French and Indian War (1754-1763), and France's defeat. Referring to Moll's map, Cumming wrote: "This map presents details in the Southeast found in no other printed map ... [including] trading paths, Indian tribes, French, Spanish, and English forts and settlements, rivers and other topographical data ...". One or two minor tears repaired. This example bears the imprints of H.Moll, Thomas Bowles, John King and John Bowles.
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