Spanish Southwest in Cyrillic

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[Cyrillic map: Mexico And Southern States].

[BONNE, Rigobert].
Paris / St.Petersburg,
R.Bonne / J.Lattre,
c1780.
Engraved map with original hand-colour in outline.
300 by 410mm. (11.75 by 16.25 inches).
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A very rare Cyrillic map of the Spanish south-west, Texas, the southern States and Florida, from Chesapeake Bay to California, with Mexico and Central America. After Bonne and Lattre's map "Carte du Mexique ou de la [Nouvelle] Espagne contenant aussi le Nouveau Mexique, la Californie, avec une partie des pays adjacents", Paris, 1771, the title appers in a similarly asymmetrical rococo cartouche lower left. This Cyrillic version of the map appeared in one of the first world ...

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