A scarce map of South Carolina and Georgia

A very rare map, showing South Carolina and Georgia stretching across the Mississippi, with parts of North Carolina and Florida. Despite the exaggerated territorial claims, the map also shows a red line that continues from the map of Virginia and North Carolina, which became the 'Proclamation Line of 1763', the attempt to establish a boundary between the British colonies and the lands of the Native Americans. The colonists' opposition to this restraint was a major cause of the American Revolution. However, as the line on this map diverges from the 'Proclamation', it is likely that this version of the line is only a proposal, before the border was agreed. The map was engraved for 'A New And Complete History of the British Empire in America' (1756), a work issued in parts but never finished, accounting for its scarcity.