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Vincenzo Maria Coronelli: La Louisiana, Parte Settentionalle, Scoperta sotto Protettione di Luigi XIV, Re di Francia…
Title: La Louisiana, Parte Settentionalle, Scoperta sotto Protettione di Luigi XIV, Re di Francia… Map Maker: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli
Description: Coronelli's map is widely regarded as one of the most important maps of the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi. Based upon reports of La Salle, Hennepin, Marquette, Jolliet and other French Jesuits who were actively exploring and conducting missionary expeditions from Quebec, down through the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi River in the late 17th Century, the map is one of the earliest to depict the results of these early explorations and the first detailed map to focus on the region. A number of the Jesuit Missions are noted as churches along the coastline of the Great Lakes. Fort Miamis is also noted. Great Lakes delineation is considered the most accurate rendering of the Lakes published in the 18th Century ans was the foundation for maps or the region for a number of years thereafter. Bellin’s later fictitious islands in Lake Superior do not appear. Included are a number of illustrations within the body of the map, showing indigenous peoples and activities. A fine dark impression, with clean wide margins. One of the cartographic milestones of the late 17th Century. Goss 45; Tooley 314; Karpinski 117.
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