Full Details for Lot 750

"Louisiana/Texas, Sheet 9"

copper-engraved map by Henry Popple from A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto, published W. H. Toms and R. W. Seale, London, 1733.
Unframed.
pl. 19-1/4" x 26-1/2", sheet 21" x 27"

Notes: This map spans the 38th parallel to south of the 28th parallel; it delineates northern New Mexico to the Ohio River and south from northern Mexico to Pensacola, Florida. It was developed for the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to better settle territorial disputes between the British, French and Spanish, and illustrates numerous Spanish and Indian settlements and details of rivers and portages.

Estimate $2,000-4,000