File:1718 Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi by Guillaume Delisle.jpg

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Title
Français : Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi.
Description
The first detailed map of the Gulf region and the Mississippi, and the first printed map to show Texas. Delisle’s 1718 map of Louisiana is one of the great milestones in the cartographic history of North America in general and in Texas cartography in particular. The most important notation to Texas history, however, was that appearing along the Trinity: ‘Mission de los Teijas, etablie in 1716.’ Referring to the earliest of the Spanish missions in East Texas, this phrase marked the first appearance of a form of the name Texas on a printed map and thus Delisle has received proper credit for establishing Texas as a geographic place name.
Date
Source Dorothy Sloan Rare Books
Creator
Guillaume Delisle  (1675–1726)  wikidata:Q1389662
 
Guillaume Delisle
Alternative names
De L'Isle, Guillaume
Description French cartographer and Royal geographer
Date of birth/death 28 February 1675 Edit this at Wikidata 25 January 1726 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
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Map location French colonization of the Americas
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N: 50.1073682°N
W: 109.9313334°W E: 71.1122125°W
S: 24.1975997°N
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Dimensions height: 48.8 cm (19.2 in); width: 65.2 cm (25.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,48.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,65.2U174728
Medium Copper-engraved map on two sheets of laid paper
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