Fine Cartographic and Printed Americana

Engraved map of the Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes, with hand coloring in outline and wash, image 482 x 575 mm (sheet 533 x 618 mm). Cartouche depicting Father Louis Hennepin, inset of Niagara Falls, cartouche with vignette of a buffalo and Native Americans. (Abrasions on verso just showing through recto in a few places, reinforced on centerfold on verso, short marginal tear lower margin.) According to Lowery, "this impression differs from the one in the Homann atlas described in Phillips...title 622, in having in the cartouche, beneath the name of Homann, the inscription Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Maj. Lowery 475; see Phillips 622 (v.I, no.139); see Phillips 4257 (v.7, no.98); see Wheat Transmississippi 144.