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This Dutch map illustrates the travels of Captain Jonathan Carver through the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley during his 1766–67 expedition into the lands of the Naudowessies (Dakota), Chippewas, and other Indigenous nations. Closely based on the English map prepared by Thomas Kitchin for the 1778 London edition, this version was newly engraved by G. van Baarsel in Leiden for the first Dutch edition of Carver’s account, published by Abraham and Jan Honkoop in 1796.
The engraving preserves Kitchin’s cartographic structure while fully translating the labels and annotations into Dutch. The map extends from Lake Huron to the Lake of the Woods, and from Lake Michigan to the Winnebago and Sauk territories. The map covers the majority of modern-day Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The map marks an important transitional moment in Upper Midwest cartography, between the Jesuit-era schematics and the empirical surveys of the post-Louisiana Purchase period.
The Dutch edition for which this map was engraved, Reize in de binnenlanden van Noord-Amerika door Jonathan Carver, was translated by Jan David Pasteur.
