Plan Of Fort Baton Rouge. / Collot, George Henri Victor ; Tardieu, P.F. / 1796

Plan Of Fort Baton Rouge. Collot, George Henri Victor ; Tardieu, P.F. 1796

Plan Of Fort Baton Rouge. / Collot, George Henri Victor ; Tardieu, P.F. / 1796

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Full Title: Plan Of Fort Baton Rouge. Grave par Tardieu l'aine. PL. 35.

Author: Collot, George Henri Victor ; Tardieu, P.F.

Date: 1796

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Author: Collot, George Henri Victor ; Tardieu, P.F.

Date: 1796

Short Title: Plan Of Fort Baton Rouge.

Publisher: Paris: Arthus Bertrand

Type: Atlas Map

Object Height cm: 16

Object Width cm: 27

Scale 1: 12,960

Note: The only early map of Baton Rouge listed in Phillips. Uncolored with scale in fathoms. Points labeled with numbers and a key are included.

Reference: P1214-35; Streeter 1789; Eberstadt 137-132; Buck 48; Sabin 14460; WC 31a:2a; Howes C601; Wheat 236; Karrow 1-1228.

State / Province: Louisiana

City: Baton Rouge (La.)

Subject: Military

Full Title: Plan Of Fort Baton Rouge. Grave par Tardieu l'aine. PL. 35.

List No: 4664.025

Series No: 25

Published In: A Journey in North America, containing a Survey of the Countries watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and other Affluing Rivers; with Exact Observations on the Course and Soundings of these Rivers; and on the Towns, Villages, Hamlets, and Farms of that Part of the New World; followed by Philosophical, Political, Military and Commercial Remarks, and by a Projected Line of Frontiers and General Limits. Illustrated by an Atlas of 36 Maps, etc. By Gen. V. Callot, late in the French Service, and Governor of Guadeloupe.

Publication Author: Collot, George Henri Victor ; Tardieu, P.F.

Publication Date: 1796

Publication Reference: P1214; Streeter 1789; Eberstadt 137-132; Buck 48; Sabin 14460; WC 31a:2a; Howes C601; Wheat 236; Karrow 1-1228.

Publication Note: This group of maps appears in Collot's "Journey in North America..." They are some of the earliest maps of the Ohio River valley (in great detail) and the Mississippi River valley. Sabin notes: "This work was printed both in French and English, but not published, at the time of General Collot's death, which happened in 1805. More than twenty years afterwards, the whole impression came into the hands of M. Bertrand...The journey was undertaken in 1796, at the request of Adet..." The work was published in 1826, but engraved and printed in 1805 based on a journey in 1796. The strange delay in publishing is explained best in Wagner Camp. The atlas and two text volumes are superlatively rare (Howes "dd", Eberstadt: "extraordinarily rare").

Publication List No: 4664.000

Publication Type: National Atlas

Publication Maps: 22

Image No: 4664025

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