Carte reduite des côtes du Golfe du Mexique et des isles de l’Amerique, ou est marquée la route des gallions

"Dressée par Ph. Buache sur les obseruations astronomiques faites a St. Domingue &a. conciliées auec ce qu’il y a de plus exact sur ces côtes, et augmentées sur obseruations particulieres rapportées dans les memoires du depost de la Marine."
"19 Xbre 1726."
Partly based on earlier work by Valentin Devin and other sources at the Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine; cf. Jackson.
Nautical chart of the Caribbean area, the West Indies, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern American coast from South Carolina to the Oronoco River delta; Spanish galleon sailing routes to Cartagena, Havana, and Vera Cruz prominently labelled in red. Colored to show French, Spanish, English, and Dutch colonial possessions.
Scale [ca. 1:4,600,000]. "Echelle de lieuës marines...vingt des quelles lieuës composent un degré" [= 23 mm.]
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, red, yellow, grey); mounted on cloth.
Sheet 61 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.
Manuscript variants of this map dated 1724, 1729, and 1731 are in the Service Hdyrographique archives (140-1-14), the Library of Congress, the Newberry Library (Ayer MS map 181), and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Estampes Vd. 20 (1)); photostatic reproductions of the first and last of these form part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library) (MapPhoto France ASH 140-1-14 and MapPhoto France BN Estampes Vd. 20 (1)).

Contained In:

In: Cartes marines : a la svbstitvtion dv Valdec proche Solevre en Svisse [map] --[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., 180, Cf. Jackson, J. Manuscript maps concerning the Gulf Coast (Chicago: Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, 1995) nos. 166 and 198, Cf. Lowery, Woodbury. The Lowery collection: a descriptive list of maps of the Spanish possessions within the present limits of the United States, 1502-1820 (Washington : G.P.O., 1912) p. 254, no. 314

Citation

Buache, Philippe, "Carte Reduite des Côtes du Golfe du Mexique et des Isles de l’Amerique, ou est Marquée la Route des Gallions" (manuscript, 1726). VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 30 sheet 61

Newberry Call Number:

VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 30 sheet 61

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Geographic Area Covered:

Caribbean Area, West Indies, Gulf of Mexico

Original Resource:

Digital reproduction of: 1 ms. map : hand colored ; 622 x 966 mm.

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Newberry Library

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