Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi]: Dressée sur un Grand Nombre de Mémoires Entrautres sur Ceux de Mr. le Maire
- Image
- View Full Item
- Created Date
- 1718
- Description
First edition of L'Isle's landmark map of North America. It covers America from the Rio Grande to the Atlantic Ocean, showing boundaries, the colonies, cities, settlements, Native American lands and villages, marshes, prairies, mountains, rivers, and lakes. The map also shows numerous routes of various explorers such as De Soto, Cavelier, Tonty, Moscoso and Denis, along with numerous annotations describing the discoveries, and other features. An inset map in the lower right corner shows a detailed depiction of the mouth of the Mississippi River and surrounding area in the Gulf of Mexico. The map includes a small key in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Creator
L'Isle, Guillaume de
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Collection
- Maps Collection
- Publisher
- Chez l'auteur le Sr. Delisle sur le quay de l'horloge avec privilege du roy
- Location
- United States
Paris - Format
- Reference map
- Language
- French
- Rights
- We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org.
- Chicago citation style
- L'Isle, Guillaume de. Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi]: Dressée sur un Grand Nombre de Mémoires Entrautres sur Ceux de Mr. le Maire. 1718. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/17700. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- L'Isle, Guillaume de, (1718) Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi]: Dressée sur un Grand Nombre de Mémoires Entrautres sur Ceux de Mr. le Maire. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/17700
- MLA citation style
- L'Isle, Guillaume de. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/17700>.