Philippe Buache:  Carte d'une Partie de l'Amerique pour la Navigation des Isles et du Golfe du Mexique . . . Reduite de la Carte Angloise en 20 feuilles par Mr. Popple . . . 1740

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Title: Carte d'une Partie de l'Amerique pour la Navigation des Isles et du Golfe du Mexique . . . Reduite de la Carte Angloise en 20 feuilles par Mr. Popple . . . 1740

Map Maker: Philippe Buache

Description:

Scarce 2 sheet map of the Florida, Texas, the Gulf Coast, Central America, the Yucatan and Caribbean, published by Buache in 1740.

Based upon Popple's 20 sheet map, Buache provides a remarkably detaiiled image of the Gulf of Mexico, including the routes of the Spanish ships and the currents of the ocean in the Caribbean well before the "discovery" of the Gulf Stream.

Though Buache had drawn a manuscript map of the Gulf region before Popple's map was published, he updated his rendering to take into account the improved information. While the focus of the map is on the navigational information, with soundings, shoals, currents, and so forth, Bucahe includes much information of the interior of South America, Central America, and what the southern part of present-day United States from Texas to Georgia.

With its large size and typical French attention to detail, this is one of the best maps of the region from the first half of the eighteenth century.

Condition Description: Printed on 2 sheets and joined.

References: Lowery, W. 358; MCC 33 no.91.

Related Categories:
Maps of the Caribbean
Maps of Central America
Maps of Florida
Maps of Mexico
Maps of the American South
Maps of Texas