1720 Accurata delineatio celeberrimae Regionis Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane

Accurata delineatio celeberrimae Regionis Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane ol. Canadae et Floridae Adpellatione in Septemtrionali America Descriptae quae Hodie Nomine Fluminis Mississippi vel St. Louis . . . This remarkable map of North America spans from the French-controlled northeast coast all the way to Spanish-controlled New Mexico and New Spain. It depicts what was known of the territories shortly after the collapse of the speculative frenzy known as the Mississippi Bubble, and in fact the title cartouche tells the story of the investment bubble and its aftermath with a few well-chosen allegorical figures.Seutter delineates all known European and Indian settlements of the day in great detail, and includes countless names of tribes in the territories they occupied. Though in French, the place names and descriptions are easy to understand as they are close to their English language equivalents. For example, he calls a region in the northeast Terre des Grands Esquimaux, the Land