LE COLONIE UNITE DELL AMERICA SETTERNTR'le di Nuova Proezione assee li signori RIFORMATORI dello Studio di Padova. (12 Maps)

An important twelve-sheet map, designed to be joined, showing North America west to the Mississippi and Spanish-owned Louisiana, and north to the Great Lakes.
The title appears within a large very decorative cartouche, which, with an inset map of Bermuda, fills one sheet. A second inset shows Florida and the Bahamas, and a third Jamaica.
This is Antonio Zatta's version of John Mitchell's landmark map with some additional notes relating to both the Treaty of 1763, and events in the Revolutionary War. Most importantly, it is the first printed map devoted to the thirteen states, and to use the name distinguishing them from their previous status as British Colonies.
The name 'United Colonies' was used in the Declaration of Independence and was not officially replaced until the 'Articles of Confederation' adopted the name ‘The United States of America.

Reference: Sabin 68109; Stephenson.