JOHNSTON, Thomas. Quebec, the Capital of New-France, a Bishoprick, and Seat of the Soverain Court. [Boston, 1759]. Artist_Thomas Moran Munster was a cosmographer

Munster was a cosmographer

The map was not a standard inclusion in Mortier's atlases and is relatively scarce on the market

Foster compared his map with Brabinski's State 2 of what he called Popple's "Miniature Map" in an advertisments published in the February 22

south from Lake Bistineau and the Red River in the North to Western Florida and Bon Secour Bay in the Southeast

He says he has paid Bell about a thousand already in royalty on the Holy cross

JOHNSTON, Thomas. Quebec, the Capital of New-France, a Bishoprick, and Seat of the Soverain Court. [Boston, 1759]. Artist_Thomas Moran Munster was a cosmographerJOHNSTON, Thomas. Quebec, the Capital of New France, a Bishoprick, and Seat of the Soverain Court. [Boston, 1759]. Single sheet mounted and framed (sheet size: 7 x 9 in.; 19. 6 x 24. 7 cm.); frame size: 11 x 13 in.; 29. 2 x 62. 7 cm.). EXTREMELY FINE engraved view of the city of Quebec, with ORIGINAL HAND COLOR; a bit browned. FIRST EDITION, SECOND STATE, with the addition of a note about the defeat of Montcalm on September 13, 1759, which happened