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| Keywords: 1780 Bonne Map of Texas, Louisiana ^ New Mexico - Geographicus - Texas2-bonne-1780.jpg This is a beautiful c 1780 Bonne map of the northern or Spanish colonial Mexico Covers from the Pacific Ocean through Mexico Baja California New Mexico Texas and Louisiana ” to western Florida extends north as far as the Mission of St Jeronimo de Taos just north of Santa Fe and south as far as Guadalajara and the northern Yucatan More specifically this map includes the modern day regions of Baja California northern Mexico and the states of Arizona New Mexico Texas and Louisiana Depicts the region in considerable detail expecially in regard to place names Indian villages missions and riverways In the Texas region there appears a city of Texas presumably the old Mission de Los Tejas from which name Texas is derived Just to the east of this city there is a notation regarding the 1665 death of the explorer La Salle In present-day Arizona the Gila River is referenced as the Rio de los Apostolos This map is heavily based on the work of D ™Anville and was issued as plate 28 in the 1780 edition of Bonne ™s important Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre 1780 Size in 12 8 5 object history credit line accession number Texas2-bonne-1780 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps of the Viceroyalty of New Spain Mexico in the 18th century 1780 1780 maps Old maps of Mexico 1780 Old maps of New Mexico 1780 Old maps of Texas 1780 Maps of Baja California Colonial New Mexico 1780 Mexico in the 1780s Maps by Rigobert Bonne Maps in French | ||||
