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Brion de la Tour: Antique Map of North America, 1766
Brion de la Tour: Antique Map of North America, 1766
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  • Map: Nouveau Mexique, Louisiane, Canada, et Nlle. Angleterre
  • Cartographer: Brion de la Tour
  • Place & Date: Paris / 1766
  • Size: 19" x 11"
  • Condition: outline color; light overall age toning

    The highly detailed North America map from Brion de la Tour's Atlas General, Civil, et Ecclesiastique, from Baffin's Bay to Central Mexico. The sketchier mapping of the West Coast is based on Russian sources, published in St. Petersburg in 1754. The map, in delicate outline color, is surrounded on both sides by text on the discovery and history of the French, Spanish, and English territories in North America.

    Louis Brion de la Tour (1743 – 1803) was an 18th century French geographer and demographer. During his career, his official title was "Ingénieur Géographe du Roi", or "King's Engineer Geographer".

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  • Condition
    outline color; light overall age toning?
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