Homann´s map of Mexico and Central America

COLONIAL EASTERN NORTH AMERICA, MEXICO, & WEST INDIES. HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST (1663-1724). Regni Mexicani seu Nova Hispaniae, Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, et Pensylvaniae, nec non insularum archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali accurata tabula. Nuremberg (J. B. Homann) no year (c. 1725).

Hand-coloured (old colour) engraved map with large figurative cartouche with two native figures with items to trade and two large fine vignettes in black and white (gold mining operations, with Indians bringing their treasures to fill the Europeans´ chest and a large sea battle near the coast of Mexico). Size c. 480x570 mm. In passepartout. Centrefold as usual, a few very minor spots.

The map covers the region from the Great Lakes and Nova Scotia through Central America, the Caribbean and Venezuela, and from New Mexico (naming Taos and Santa Fe) to the eastern seaboard. It is based largely on Delisle´s map of 1703 (Carte du Mexique et de la Floride), depicting the social, political, and economic outcomes from the War of the Spanish Succession, also known as Queen Anne´s War.
All the British colonies are shown confined east of the Appalachians and extending south almost to St. Augustine, deep into Spanish-claimed territory. The map is filled with settlement place names, Indian tribes and villages. In present-day Texas, Corpus Christi and El Paso (el passo) are noted.

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