North America

62x42 cm

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THE COURSE of the RIVER S.^T LAURENCE, from LAKE ONTARIO  to MANCOUGAN POINT. 
J.& G.Menzies sculp.^t Edin.^r 

Two maps engraved on separate plates printed on one sheet.
The right map shows the eastern United States from the Mississippi to the Atlantic with a great amount of detail relating to treaties and territorial changes at the time.
The left map shows the St Lawrence river from its mouth to Lake Ontario, an important trading route.

Engraved by J. & G. Menzies of Edinburgh established by John Menzies (fl.1792-1851) and George Menzies (fl.1811-1831). for publication in Thomson's New General Atlas...Edinburgh, London & Dublin 1817. 
John Thomson (fl.1804-1837), an Edinburgh publisher, employed several engravers on his atlas.

Light diagonal crease adjacent to St Lawrence river but it remains a fine and historically significant map in very good condition and in full original hand colour.