Frenchman opens up US in map form

A cartographic highlight of the summer came with the appearance in an 11-day, online US sale of a remarkably detailed early 18th century manuscript map of the American south-west.

A map that resulted from J-B Bénard de la Harpe’s four-year travels in regions that we know now as…

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