A New Map of North America Shewing its Principal Divisions Chief Cities, Townes, Rivers, Mountains &c....
Designed as a teaching tool when Wells was the tutor of the young Duke of Gloucester, this map for the continent includes a pronounced depiction of California as an island with a label of “New Albion discovered by Sir Francis Drake Anno 1577” in the north, and is indebted to Hennepin throughout. Indeed in between the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes (all of which are named) is a large notation for the “Hennepin Discovery”. Decorative and primitive, it is a product of its time with mishapen contours and and ambling Mississippi River. Shows the colonial boundaries, and notes major cities. Burden, P.D. #758, state 3; McLaughlin, G. #142 (state 4).
Condition is very good. Image size is approximately 14.5 x 19.5 (inches),
