A superb wall map of the Americas rarely found in original colour

A fine wall map of the Americas as they were divided between the colonial powers, with two title cartouches, one French (as above), one Spanish. The finely-engraved decorative borders contain twenty vignette scenes from American history, mainly concerning different aspects of its discovery, Indian and Colonial history, all in full colour, each with a short text in French and Spanish. On the map Clouet has pinpointed the locations of various tribes, but unfortunately has included some of the cartographic inventions of the period, with the gigantic Mer de l'Ouest and the 'discovery' of the North Wet Passage by Admiral de Fonte. The bilingual nature of this map is due to the fact that Mondhare also had offices in Cadiz. Surviving copies are rare.