79/5101 [America]. "Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi". Contemp. handcol. engr. map by G. DE L'ISLE, inset map "Carte Particuliere des Embouchures de la Riviere S. Louis et de la Mobile", compass rose, 44x60 cm., Amst., J. Covens and C. Mortier, ±1730.

- Two minuscule closed tears in centre; some trifle browned areas; otherwisse fine.

= Tooley, p.22: 45: "The first detailed map of the gulf region and the Mississipi, the first map to show Texas, the first to show the land routes of earlier centuries (...) The map had political implications and outraged the English by laying claim to Carolina (...) and as further insult "Charles Town" [Carolina] named by the French Carlefort" (p.21). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.