LE COLONIE UNITE DELL'AMERICA SETTENTR[IONA]LE. DI NUOVO PROJEZIONE

Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1778. First Edition. Softcover. Some minor worming to inner marginal folds of maps, occasional spotting. Complete with vibrant coloring. Close to Fine. Oblong folio (16 1/4" x 12") bound in contemporary limp decorated paper covers. Containing 15 double-page engraved maps (including the double-page title), each beautifully hand-colored, depicting Bermuda; the east coast of North America from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to the Great Lakes and south to "Luigiana" and "Messico"; Lake Superior and its coast, with an inset of eastern Florida, including the Keys and Bahamas; Canada, between the Ottawa River and Hudson Bay; Labrador; Lake Michigan, including parts of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa; Lake Huron, Ontario, Erie, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, the Hudson River, Long Island, and western New England; the Canadian and New England coast from Acadia and the Bay of Fundy, down the coast to the Long Island Sound; Virginia, the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, Louisiana, and the Carolinas; Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, and the Carolinas; Jamaica; the Gulf of Mexico, including the coast between Florida and New Orleans, north into Indian territory; the east coast of northern Florida, Georgia, up to Cape Fear; Newfoundland and Cape Breton; and Hudson Bay.