Italian map of the eastern coast of the United States, covering the New York Bay and major ports. 

The map was included in the "Gazettiere Americano", a work issued at the end of the Seven Years War, focusing on the New World, particularly the West Indies and North America. It was edited by Marco Coltellini in Livorno and the maps are based on mixture of French and English maps. Jacques Nicholas Bellin was the main French source while the English maps seem to be sourced from several 18th century gazetteers including the Gentleman's Magazine, the London Magazine and the Universal Magazine. The cartographers usually associated with these publications were John Gibson, Emanuel Bowen and his apprentice Thomas Kitchin and Thomas Jefferys. 

This small map of New York Bay is difficult to pin down. Bellin issued a map covering a very similar area in his Petit Atlas Maritime in 1764 but geographically, it is very different. We have not been able to find any English gazetteer maps like it, although larger charts of the same region were published by Mark Tiddeman in the mid 18th century. Again, the geographical shape of the coastline is very different to this map though. 

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