Historic Map : Cassini Map of Florida, Louisiana, Cuba, and Central America , 1798, Vintage Wall Art Old maps of Georgia (U.S. state) 5251046 Eighth Avenue Assn

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Historic Map : Cassini Map of Florida, Louisiana, Cuba, and Central America , 1798, Vintage Wall Art Old maps of Georgia (U.S. state) 5251046 Eighth Avenue AssnThis is a stunningly rendered 1798 map of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, and Central America by the Italian cartographer Giovanni Maria Cassini. While visually alluring, this map is cartographically primitive. Florida is here represented as an archipelago. Cassini also fails to attach the Mississippi River to the Missouri. He does however make some effort at naming a number of American Indian tribes in the Mississippi Valley and Texas,