North America corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society of London, and the Royal Academy at Paris...

Monumental and important large wall map of the Eastern part of North America with the United States, Central America, and the West Indies. Centered on the great lakes.

1st published by John Senex in London in 1710, here probably a later state dedicated to Anthony Hammond.

One of the earliest large-scale English maps of the continent. It represents a British attempt to consolidate new information about the region and borrows data from such recently published sources as Delisle's landmark Carte du Mexique et de la Floride, especially for the lower portion of the map. To this information Senex contributed a fine depiction of the Great Lakes region and the most accurate definition of the lower Mississippi River and its delta by an English cartographer of the period. He also extended the map's coverage to the far reaches of Canada's Northwest Territories and the Terra Incognita above Baffin's Bay. Present-day Oklahoma and Texas are part of 'La Floride,' considered at the time to be a possession of the French. The Red River and the Indian villages of East Texas are portrayed accurately, but Senex, following Delisle, incorrectly placed many Texas rivers, in addition to depicting some strange and unrecognizable names. An exceptional product of its era, the map has a spare, clean, carto-scientific style indicative of that for which Senex was known.

SCARCE & IMPORTANT MAP!

Reference: Stevens&Tree 61a; Lowery 273; Wagner 495; Shirley, BL Atlases SEN-1c