Johann Baptiste Homann "Amplissimae regionis Mississipi seu Provinciae Ludovicianae...", Nuremberg, 1720, hand-colored map, 19 1/2 in. x 22 5/8 in., framed, together with antique hand-colored map of Louisiana, Missisippi, and Arkansas, 19th c. , by Johnson , 24 1/2 in. x 17 1/2 in., framed . Note: Known as the "Buffalo" map, and based Delisle's seminal work, this map features a title cartouche depicting colonial explorer Father Louis de Hennepin, a vignette of a beaver colony at Niagara Falls, and another cartouche of Indians flanking a standing buffalo . Provenance: By repute, Arader Galleries, New York, NY; Collection of Noted Preservationist and Aesthete Dorian M. Bennett, New Orleans.

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