[Map of the lower Mississippi River, neighboring coast, and the country to the southwest.]

Format:

Manuscript

Map/Atlas

Author/Creator:

Vanden Bosh, Lawrence, cartographer.

Contributor:

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library), owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Louisiana--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Louisiana.

Mississippi River Valley--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Mississippi River Valley.

Texas--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Texas.

Genre:

Manuscript maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 map).

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1694]

Notes:

1 manuscript map; on sheet 493 x 378 mm. Pen-and-ink.

AM reference: VAULT drawer Ayer MS 339 map 1

Detached from an office book kept by Daniel Pulteney (a commissioner of the Council of Trade and Plantations, London): 'Board of Trade. Plantation reports, 1717-1722' (Ayer MS 339).

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.

See description and reproduction in G. Malcolm Lewis, Cartographic encounters: perspectives on Native American mapmaking and map use (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 20-21. See also Mark Warhus, 'Cartographic encounters: an exhibition of Native American maps... ' in Mapline special no. 7 (September 1993), pp. 3-4, no. 7; Jack Jackson, Manuscript maps concerning the Gulf Coast (Chicago: Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, 1995), p. 11, no. 51; G. Malcolm Lewis, 'Indian maps' in Carol M. Judd and Arthur J. Ray (eds), Old trails and new directions: papers of the Third North American Fur Trade Conference (Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1980), p. 14; William P. Cumming et al, The Exploration of North America, 1630-1776 (New York: Putnam, 1974), p. 151, pl. 226.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata (viewed January 30, 2024).