Old Map of the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley, Northern America, c1780

Name: Old Map of the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley, Northern America, c1780
Brand: Rigobert Bonne
SKU: PCT-58787
Price: 925 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: circa 1780
Maker: Rigobert Bonne
Kind: Maps
Size: 26.2 × 37.7 cm (10.3 × 14.8 in)
Condition: Good. GoodWear consistent with age and use.
Places: Canada
Reference: PCT-58787

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Partie Occidentale du Canada, an original copper engraved map of the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi valley by Rigobert Bonne, from the atlas prepared for Guillaume Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, c.1780. The title reads "Partie Occidentale du Canada, contenant les cinq Grands Lacs, avec les Pays circonvoisins". The sheet has a hand-colored coastline and a broad yellow border.

Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario are drawn in the form French mapmakers knew them, ringed with color. The map names the lands of the Sioux, the Iroquois, the Illinois, the Assiniboine and other peoples, and marks forts and routes, among them Chicagou, Detroit and Michillimackinac. Lake Superior still carries a number of islands that were later shown not to exist. Rivers run west toward the Mississippi, and the upper Mississippi is shown without a known source.

The map reflects the geography of the region as it stood before the American Revolution settled the border, and Bonne's small-scale maps were widely used as the most up to date summary of French knowledge of the interior.

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