Historic Map : Cassini Map of Florida, Louisiana, Cuba, and Central America , 1798, Vintage Wall Art Old maps of Georgia (U.S. state) 5251046 the Principality of Asturias

the Principality of Asturias

Warner and Beers

Covers the entire state along with portions of adjacent Canada and New Hampshire

was speculated by Philippe Buache and Guillaume De l'Isle in the early 18th century based upon wishful thinking

Title cartouche appears at the top of the map and features four cherubs

Historic Map : Cassini Map of Florida, Louisiana, Cuba, and Central America , 1798, Vintage Wall Art Old maps of Georgia (U.S. state) 5251046 the Principality of AsturiasThis is a stunningly rendered 1798 map of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, and Central America by the Italian cartographer Giovanni Maria Cassini. While visually alluring, this map is cartographically primitive. Florida is here represented as an archipelago. Cassini also fails to attach the Mississippi River to the Missouri. He does however make some effort at naming a number of American Indian tribes in the Mississippi Valley and Texas,