Fine Cartographic and Printed Americana

Engraved map of North America detailing the Mississippi River basin, image 361 x 391 mm (sheet 404 x 453 mm). Inset view of Niagara Falls, cartouche depicting Native Americans, index. (Marginal hole repaired, creased.) "The first accurate delineation of [the Mississippi] River" (Howes). The map was published for inclusion in Joutel's A Journal Of the Last Voyage Perform'd by Monsr. de la Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, To find out the Mouth of the Missisipi River, the first English edition of his work, which was first published in French in 1713. See Graff 2252; see Howes J-266; see Sabin 36762.