Mallet, Allain Manesson
1683

Decorative antique map of the Florida Territory

Floride

DESCRIPTION: Unusual and somewhat primitive antique engraved map "Floride" of the eastern Gulf Coast including Florida ca. 1683. From Mallet's "Description de L'Univers". Printed from a copper-plate engraving onto chain-laid paper. Figure 18.

Mallet uses the names of native American Indians as place names. Florida is shown labeled as Tegesta. The Tegesta or Tequesta was a Native American tribe located mainly in southeastern Florida. Explorer, cartographer, and seafarer Bernard Romans used that label on his map of Florida as late as 1794.

Also shown is the area of the SW Florida coast inhabited by the Cossa or Calussa Indians and the area of the Apalachee Indians shown much too far to the north.

CREATOR: Mallet, Allain Manesson

PUBLICATION DATE: 1683

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

BODY OF WATER: Gulf of Mexico

CONDITION: Good.  Clean on laid paper. Prominent platemark.

COLORING: one

ENGRAVER: 

SIZE: 4 " x 6 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 11

PRICE: $250

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