Lopez de Vargas Map of Louisiana showing New Orleans Greatest Watercolors a few chips and scratches

a few chips and scratches to the gore surface with very slight loss

18 x 26 1/2 inches

this map depicting the City of Goa is dated in the year 1509

Mulsant & Verreaux [Stripe-tailed Hummingbird] Eupherusa Eximia

when the Royal Navy maintained extensive knowledge of North American waters

Lopez de Vargas Map of Louisiana showing New Orleans Greatest Watercolors a few chips and scratchesLOPEZ DE VARGAS MACHUCA, Tomas (1730 1802). La Luisiana cedida al Rei N. S. por S. M.. Christianisima, con la Nueva Orleans, e isla en que se halla esta ciudad. Engraved map. Madrid, 1762. 17 1 4" x 20 5 8" sheet, 29" x 32" framed. A Spanish Imprint of the Mississippi Valley. A scarce and significant Spanish map of Louisiana, probably produced to commemorate the secret cession of the area from France to Spain in the Treaty of Fontainebleau at the end