Carte de la coste de la Louisiane, depuis la Baye de St. Bernard jusqu’a celle de Saint Joseph : ou tous les ports, rades, et bons mouillages sont exactement marquez avec les sondes, et la profondeur des terres jusqu’au dessus des

Coast of Louisiana, 1726

Referenced by Selection:

Louisiana and the Coast of Mexico, 1726

Geographic Area Covered:

United States--Gulf Coast

Geographic Coordinates:

(W 96°45'--W 85°04'/N 31°13'--N 28°19')

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Full Title: Carte de la coste de la Louisiane, depuis la Baye de St. Bernard jusqu’a celle de Saint Joseph : ou tous les ports, rades, et bons mouillages sont exactement marquez avec les sondes, et la profondeur des terres jusqu’au dessus des

Creators:

Devin, Valentin

Date Created:

1726

Contributors:

Pauger, Adrien, fl. 1722, Béranger, Jean, Bénard de La Harpe, Jean Baptiste, 1683-1765

Subjects:

Devin, Valentin, Bénard de La Harpe, Jean Baptiste, 1683-1765, Béranger, Jean, Coasts, Nautical charts

Form/Genre:

Maps, Manuscript maps, Nautical charts

Mode of Travel:

Waterways, Ocean routes

Context of Travel:

Navigation, Exploration

Time Period Covered:

ca. 1726

Notes:

Nautical chart of the Gulf of Mexico coast from Matagorda Bay, Texas east through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to Saint Joseph Bay, Florida. Compiled following the 1721 expedition of Valentin Devin, Jean Béranger, and Jean-Baptiste de La Harpe in search of Robert Cavelier de La Salle's 1685 landing site at Matagorda Bay; Devin's expedition landed instead and by mistake at Galveston Bay.
Anonymous copy of map by Valentin Devin probably derived from earlier work by Adrien Pauger; see Jackson, J. Manuscript maps concerning the Gulf Coast (Chicago: Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, 1995) p. 36, no. 175.
Includes references A-I.
Scale [ca. 1:1,540,000]. "Echelle de 20 lieües marines"
Depths shown with soundings.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, brown, red, blue); mounted on cloth.
Sheet 78 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.
A variant ms. copy is held by the Library of Congress (G3860 1732 .C Vault). Another variant (location unknown) was partially reproduced in Villiers du Terrage, Marc de. "Les indiens du Texas et les expeditions françaises de 1720 et 1721 à la Baie Saint-Bernard" in Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris, N.S. v. 11, no. 2 (1919), pl. 4, opposite p. 417.

Contained In:

In: Cartes marines : a la svbstitvtion dv Valdec proche Solevre en Svisse--[ca. 1640-ca. 1726]

Original Collection:

Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library), Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library)

Referenced In:

Smith, C.A. List of ms. maps Ayer Coll., 159, Jackson, J. Manuscript maps concerning the Gulf Coast (Chicago: Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, 1995) p. 36, no. 175

Citation

Devin, Valentin, "Carte de la Coste de la Louisiane, depuis la Baye de St. Bernard jusqu’a celle de Saint Joseph" (manuscript, ca. 1726). VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 30 sheet 78

Newberry Call Number:

VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 30 sheet 78

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Geographic Area Covered:

United States--Gulf Coast

Original Resource:

Digital reproduction of: 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 314 x 929 mm., on sheet 557 x 1,000 mm.

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Newberry Library

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