"Carte de la Caroline et Georgie. Pour Servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Colonial Southeastern United States
Period: 1757 (dated)
Publication: Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages
Color: Hand Color
Size: 7.4 x 11.3

This delicately engraved map covers the colonies of Carolina and Georgia from Albemarle Sound to the Alatamaha River. It probably owes its origin to the 1752 map of the region by Emanuel Bowen. There are numerous English settlements along the coast, and Indian villages are located throughout, including a number west of the Appalachian Mountains. There is more detail in the area west of the Blue Ridge than in many other maps of the period. It shows a rudimentary course of the Tennessee River in the northwestern section of the map. A decorative rococo-style title cartouche incorporates the distance scale.See also lot 809 for Cumming's reference work, The Southeast in Early Maps, which describes this map.

References: Cumming (SE) #311; Sellers & Van Ee #1384.
Condition: A
A sharp impression, issued folding with light toning along the edges of the sheet.