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La Luisiana : cedida al Rei N.S. por S. M. Christianisima, con la Nueva Orleans, è Isla en que se halla esta ciudad construida sobre el mapa de Mr. D'Anville / por D. Thomás Lopez

Description: Three maps in one, with New Orleans as a submap, and the northern extension of the Mississippi as another. Submaps: New Orleans; Northern extension Mississippi River. Submap of New Orleans acknowledges debt to Bellin's map. Map is placed in a wider context in Charting Louisiana : five hundred years of maps, 2003, map number 34 on page 77. MS note: x77474 Geo. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1762
Call number: 77474
Creator: López de Vargas Machuca, Tomás (1731-1802)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: Size: 39 x 39 cm, folded.
Associated people: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', (1697-1782.); Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, (1703-1772.)
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