1755 Map Partie de l'Amerique Septentrionale, qui comprend Le Cours de L'Ohio...
Didier Robert de Vaugondy. Partie de l'Amérique Septentrionale, qui comprend Le Cours de L'Ohio, La Nlle. Angleterre, La Nlle. York, Le New Jersey, La Pennsylvanie, Le Maryland La Virginie, La Caroline. From Atlas Universel. Paris, 1755. ## x ## in. Engraved map with hand coloring. Inset of the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas.
An attractive mid-18th century hand-colored engraved map of the American colonies between the Atlantic ocean and the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The trans-Allegheny and Great Lakes were hotly contested by colonial powers, erupting in the French & Indian War.
The map shows the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, known as the Forks of the Ohio, and the location of Fort Duquesne.
Based on the map by John Mitchell published the same year.
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Didier Robert de Vaugondy. Partie de l'Amérique Septentrionale, qui comprend Le Cours de L'Ohio, La Nlle. Angleterre, La Nlle. York, Le New Jersey, La Pennsylvanie, Le Maryland La Virginie, La Caroline. From Atlas Universel. Paris, 1755. ## x ## in. Engraved map with hand coloring. Inset of the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas.
An attractive mid-18th century hand-colored engraved map of the American colonies between the Atlantic ocean and the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The trans-Allegheny and Great Lakes were hotly contested by colonial powers, erupting in the French & Indian War.
The map shows the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, known as the Forks of the Ohio, and the location of Fort Duquesne.
Based on the map by John Mitchell published the same year.
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