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    1 : 2455000 Description A striking and impressively proportioned cartographic curiosity this is a c. 1920 manuscript map of Florida and the Gulf Littoral as far as Texas. The image is surrounded by front and back-facing images of American Indians. Most likely this is the original art for an unpublished educational poster, as is exhibits a professional level of execution. The map is drawn in ink with color added using what appears to be colored pencil or pastels. Sources - the Map The map is based upon the rare 1715 first edition of Nicolas De Fer's map of the southern part of North Am...

America-defer-1705 $3,000.00 Title L'Amerique, meridionale, et septentrionale Dressée selon les Dernieres Relations et suivant les Nouvelles Decouvertes dont les pounts prin= cipaux sont placez sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences.   1705 (dated)         1 : 40000000 Description This is Nicolas de Fer's 1699 map of America, in a lovely old color example of the second state, printed in 1705. Both of the first two states of this map were separately issued, and are consequently rare. This detailed and richly annotated map, derived from De Fer's own 1698 ...