"Cours du Fleuve Saint Louis Depuis ses Embouchures Jusqu'a la Riviere d'Iberville et Costes Voisines", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Colonial Louisiana, Mississippi River

Period: 1764 (circa)

Publication: Le Petit Atlas Maritime…

Color: Hand Color

Size:

14 x 8.6 inches
35.6 x 21.8 cm

This is an uncommon map of the Mississippi River delta and the coastline to Mobile Bay. It shows the course of the Mississippi up to the Iberville River, near present-day Baton Rouge, and also locates New Orleans, Lake Pontchartrain, Biloxi, and more. The English Turn (Detour des Anglois) is noted south of New Orleans. Decorated by a fine compass rose with fleur-de-lis, rhumb lines, and a strapwork title cartouche.

See also lot 794 for Lemmon, Magill & Wiese 's Charting Louisiana - Five Hundred Years of Maps that describes this map.

References: Lemmon, Magill & Wiese #30; Phillips (Atlases) #3508, v. 1 #43.

Condition: A

A crisp impression on watermarked paper with contemporary color. There is a hint of offsetting, otherwise fine.