A LATE BAROQUE MAP OF COLONIAL AMERICA, "Mappa geographica Regionem Mexicanam et Floridam," AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1740, hand colored engraving on paper, "Terrasque adjacentes, ut et Anteriores Americæ insulas, versus itidem et Reditus Navigantium versus flumen missisipi[sic] et alias Colonias ob oculos ponens cura et sumptibus.," by Mathäus Seutter, cartographer, with contributions by Augustæ Vindel, plate preparer, and Tobias Conrad Lotter, publisher, "Cum Gratia et Privl. S.R.I. Vicariatus in partibus Rheni Sueviae et Juris Francomici," with a rococo distance chart surrounded with shells, coral branches, cattail plants, dolphins, anchors, nets, and paddles; below a smokey ship battle carries on in a bay as trade between Dutch, Spanish and French merchants continues, four inset maps of Portus Belli, Carthagena, Vera Cruz, and Havana; including sailing notes and best route, with a compass rose, partial rhumb lines. 19 3/4" x 23" Provenance: Private Document Collection, Rochester, New York.

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