Copper engraving, original hand color, mm 490x700. From Algemeiner Hand-Atlas der Ganzen Erde...by Adam Christian Gaspari, published from 1797 onwards. Good condition but with water stain in upper margin. Rare first state of Gussefeld's map of the United States, published in the same year of the purchase of Louisiana. The map locates many early Indian Tribes, forts and important historical deails. First edition with Georgia separated from the future Mississippi Territory by a dotted line, the Tennessee-North Carolina border running from north to south and Ohio demarcated below the eastern part of Indiana Territory. One of the best early depictions of the newly created Louisiana Territory.