Continuation of catalog title: "A R.P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss. in America septentrionali anno 1687 detectae, nunc Gallorum coloniis et actionem negotiis toto orbe celeberrimae." Map shows the eastern states, Florida, the Great Lakes, Louisiana Territory, and portions of Mexico and Canada. Locations of Indian tribes are shown, as well as rivers, mountains, and towns.
Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. In 1683, a Belgian Recollect priest, Father Louis Hennepin, who had come west with La Salle and had remained on the upper Mississippi, published in Paris his widely read "Description de la Louisiane." From: "Mapping the Transmississippi West," by Carl I. Wheat, 1957, Vol. 1, p. 49. Date based on entry #144.
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