Lot 292: SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES--LE MOYNE DE MORGUES, JACQUES.

FLORIDAE AMERICAE PROVINCIAE RECENS & EXACTISSIMA DESCRIPTIO. [FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN, 1591], 368 X 459MM., FOLDING ENGRAVED MAP, TRIMMED INTO THE UPPER ENGRAVED BORDER (AS OFTEN), WITH REINSTATEMENT AT RIGHT

FLORIDAE AMERICAE PROVINCIAE RECENS & EXACTISSIMA DESCRIPTIO. [FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN, 1591], 368 X 459MM., FOLDING ENGRAVED MAP, TRIMMED INTO THE UPPER ENGRAVED BORDER (AS OFTEN), WITH REINSTATEMENT AT RIGHT

LITERATURE

Burden, Mapping of North America 79

NOTE

Compiled by Le Moyne, who accompanied the second French attempt to establish a colony in the Southeast, on the River May. The settlement was destroyed by the Spanish, while a few Frenchmen, including Le Moyne, barely escaped with their lives. Le Moyne settled in London and his materials were posthumously acquired by Theodore de Bry, who published this influential map to accompany Le Moyne's account of the unsuccessful colony.