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Title Carte de l'entrée de la Baye de Saint Louis nommée par les espagnols St. Bernard ou l'on a marqué exactement la quantité de pieds d'eau que l'on...

Creator Devin, Valentin

Date 1720

Place Aransas Bay (Tex.), Texas--Aransas Bay

Language French

Subjects Bays, Manuscript maps, Nautical charts

Description Sheet 84 of 115 (i.e. 117; includes sheets 71A and 106A) numbered leaves in the Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, detailing French colonial interests worldwide, ca. 1640-ca. 1726.
Oriented with north at right.
Depths shown with soundings; relief shown pictorially.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, brown, grey); mounted on cloth.
Manuscript variants of this map dated 1720 and 1730 are in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ge DD 2987-8841 and Estampes Vd. 20 [no. 3]); reduced photostatic reproductions of both form part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library). See Jackson, Jack. Manuscript maps concerning the Gulf Coast, Texas and the Southwest (Chicago: Newberry Library, 1995) p. 28, nos. 130-131 and p. 39, no. 193. Shot from 4x5 transparency.

Summary Nautical chart of Aransas Bay on the Texas coast, named St. Louis Bay in the mistaken belief that it was the site of the failed Gulf coast colony established in 1685 by Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle.

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 467 x 661 mm

Format Early works to 1800, Manuscript maps, Maps--Early works to 1800, Nautical charts

Archival Collection Title Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Ayer MS map 30 sheet 84

BibID 991765228805867

Size 6120px × 4383px 76.76 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Filename 991765228805867_ayer_ms_map_30_sheet_84.tif

Unique Identifier NL11KMDW

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