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Author
[Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720, Compagnie des Indes occidentales]
Full Title
Partie meridionale de la Riviere de Missisipi et ses environs dans l'Amerique Septentrionale.
List No
10022.099
Note
This is also the lower half of a two sheet map. The top half is our 10022.100 - "Le Cours du Missisipi ou de St. Louis."
Author
[Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720, Compagnie des Indes occidentales]
Full Title
Le cours de Missisipi, ou de St. Louis : fameuse riviere de l'Amerique Septentrionale aux environs de laquelle se trouve le pai��s appelle Louisiane : dresse��e sur les relations et me��moires du pere Hannepin et de mrs. de La Salle, Tonti, Laotan, Ioustel, Des Hayes, Joliet, et Le Maire &c. (inset map)
List No
10022.100
Note
This map joins with our 10022.099 - "Partie meridionale de la Riviere de Missisipi.This is also the lower half of a two sheet map. The top half is our 10022.100 - "Le Cours du Missisipi ou de St. Louis." Shows the source of the Mississippi River, with latitude and longitude coordinates; covers east to Lake Ontario and south to Illinois. Scattered throughout are images of Native villages, and Natives hunting game and participating in a ritual. The inset map depicts the final section of this river, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico near what is now New Orleans. The decorative border dividing the two maps features Natives with bows and arrows, as well as reindeer. In the lower left corner, surrounding the map's title, are images of monks preaching to and baptizing Natives, Natives hunting, and a Native holding a scalp
Author
[Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720, Compagnie des Indes occidentales]
Full Title
(Composite map of) Le cours de Missisipi, ou de St. Louis (with) Partie meridionale de la Riviere de Missisipi.
List No
10022.101
Note
A composite of two maps that De Fer published separately but also appeared joined together to show the entire course of the Mississippi River. From Ruderman: "De Fer's 2 sheet map is one of the most important maps of the region and one of the earliest maps to incorporate the reports of Jesuit missionaries and explorers active in the early 18th Century. De Fer's map is perhaps the most important and influential regional map of the period, providing significantly updated cartographic information in a number of regions. The map is the first printed map to provide the updated treatment of the Mississippi River later made famous by De L'Isle in his Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Missisipi. . . (pre-dating De L'Isle's map) , the first to include the updated information along the Gulf Coast transmitted to France by Francoise Le Maire and the first to incorporate the revised and improved mapping of the Great Lakes derived from Jesuit missionary sources in the north. While its cartographic details rival the contemporary maps of Guillaume De L'Isle for primacy, De Fer's map was almost certainly the more influential work at the time it was published, having been commissioned by John Law's Compagnie d'Occident (Company of the West), to provide a graphic depiction of the vast and rich commercial potential of French Louisiana, for which commercial rights had just been ceded to Law's Company of the West. De Fer first began work on his map in 1715, when he issued his La Riviere de Missisipi, et ses Environs, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale ..., based upon a 1701 manuscript map by Guillaume De L'Isle . The 1715 map is essentially the proof state for the lower half of the 2-sheet map, lacking the internal embellishments intended to demonstrate the wealth of the region. With the founding of John Law's Company of the West and Law's being granted by the King of France the rights to commercial control of Louisiana in August 1717, Law commenced an advertising and promotional campaign to attract investors for his new company. A visual tool was undoubtedly needed to help potential investors understand the scope and commercial potential of France's holdings in Louisiana. To fill the need, De Fer was commissioned to create such a map.
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