1750 Mappa Geographica Regionem Mexicanam et Floridam…

Mappa Geographica, Regionem Mexicanam Et Floridam Terrasque adjacentes, ut et Anteriores Americae Insulas, Cursus itidem et Reitus Navigantium versus flumem Missisipi et alias Colonias ob oculos ponens cura et sumtibus This beautiful map is Seutter’s decorative version of Delisle’e important map Carte de Mexique et de la Floride of 1703, engraved by Seutter’s son-in-law, Conrad Lotter, who took over the business on the death of Matthaus Seutter. Colonial Claims in North America The region has been engraved and colored to present the colonial boundaries as dictated by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. The area to the east of the Appalachian Mountains contains the British colonies, while France lays claim to the Mississippi valley and Florida (which covers much territory). The details of the Mississippi Valley represent a radical departure from earlier maps as they accurately depict the information provided by the French Jesuits in North America in the late seventeenth century. Mexico and