Carte du Mexique, et de la Nouvelle Espagne, Contenant la Partie Australe de L`Amérique septentle. Par Mr. D`Anville....

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Copper engraving, hand colored in outline. This map is depicting the southeastern part of the United States with Mexico and the gulf of Mexico. Texas is named ,Nouveau Leon', also the French discoveries near Galveston in Texas. The map first appeared in Santini's Atlas Universel in 1776-79 in Paris. In 1784 Santini sold the plates of the maps to M. Remondini, who published then these maps in Venice with his additional imprint in the title cartouches.