D'Anville's Carte de la Louisiane, 1732 European Paintings The primary issue was the

The primary issue was the actual location of the headwaters of the rivers

Ascensión also published descriptions of the insular geography in Juan Torquemada’s Monarquia Indiana (1613) (with the island details curtailed somewhat) and in his own Relación breve of ca

Mendaña's first and second voyages (1568 and 1595)

This also belies Salmon's own statement that he painted his first work only in 1806

according to the size of the fruit

D'Anville's Carte de la Louisiane, 1732 European Paintings The primary issue was theD'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697 1782). Carte de la Louisiane, 1732. Engraved map. Paris, 1752. 21 1 2" x 31 1 2" sheet.