Lopez de Vargas Map of Louisiana showing New Orleans Greatest Watercolors Mulsant & Verreaux [Stripe-tailed Hummingbird]

Mulsant & Verreaux [Stripe-tailed Hummingbird] Eupherusa Eximia

a few chips and scratches to the gore surface with very slight loss

Brookshaw’s fine illustrations make excellent use of the rich

with large purple flowers resembling Bauhinia in form

painted by one of the foremost figures in French ornithological art

Lopez de Vargas Map of Louisiana showing New Orleans Greatest Watercolors Mulsant & Verreaux [Stripe-tailed Hummingbird]LOPEZ DE VARGAS MACHUCA, Tomas (1730 1802). La Luisiana cedida al Rei N. S. por S. M.. Christianisima, con la Nueva Orleans, e isla en que se halla esta ciudad. Engraved map. Madrid, 1762. 17 1 4" x 20 5 8" sheet, 29" x 32" framed. A Spanish Imprint of the Mississippi Valley. A scarce and significant Spanish map of Louisiana, probably produced to commemorate the secret cession of the area from France to Spain in the Treaty of Fontainebleau at the end