reaching New Orleans in January 1722
and detail of French cartography was unrivaled in this period
Wilkes returned to New York Harbor with only two of his six ships and a mountain of ethnographic
After Lewis & Clark's celebrated expedition up the Missouri River into the Pacific Northwest
using the map that accompanied the wildly popular printed volumes on the journey
GERARD MERCATOR, Asia ex magna orbis terre etc., Amsterdam, 1630. bibliophilic-essay-11 reaching New Orleans in JanuaryGerard Mercator Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris Desumpta studio et industria G. M. Iumioris Amsterdam, 1630 14 7 8 x 18 3 8 in. Mercator's map of Asia, in old color, showing the continent in detail and offering a fascinating cartographic snapshot of late sixteenth century geographic thought. The centrality of the continent is emphasized in the maps composition; parts of Europe, Africa, North America, and Australia are all