Canal, Mississippi au Lac Pontchartrain. / Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876 / 1834

Canal, Mississippi au Lac Pontchartrain. Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876, 1834

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Full Title: Plan du canal de jonction du Mississippi au Lac Pontchartrain. (with) Canal de Louisville. Profil moyen sur lequel a ete calcule de devis estimatif. (with) Canal de la Chesapeake a la Delaware. Plan du trace, situation des ecluses, nivellement general et profil du canal. Dessine par le Major Poussin. Grave par (V.?) Adam. (1834)

Author: Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876

Date: 1834

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Author: Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876

Date: 1834

Short Title: Canal, Mississippi au Lac Pontchartrain.

Publisher: Paris: Libraire Anselin; Paris: Libraire Carilian-Goeury

Type: Atlas Map

Object Height cm: 39

Object Width cm: 54

Scale 1: 50,000

Note: Engraved map with 2 insets. Soundings in English feet.

State / Province: Louisiana ; Kentucky ; Delaware

Subject: Canals

List No: 2329.003

Page No: pl. III

Series No: 7

Engraver or Printer: Imprimerie de Lachevardiere ; Adam, V.

Published In: Travaux d'ameliorations interieures projetes ou executes par le Gouvernement General des Etats-Unis d'Amerique, de 1824 a 1831; par Guillaume-Tell Poussin ... Atlas. Paris, Anselin, Libraire, pour l'art militaire, les sciences et les arts, rue Dauphine, No. 36, dans le passage Dauphine. Carilian-Goeury, Libraire, des ponts et chaussees et des mines, Quai des Augustins, No. 41. 1834. Imprimerie de Lachevardiere, rue du Colombier, No. 30.

Publication Author: Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876

Publication Date: 1834

Publication Reference: Phillips 1265.

Publication Note: Atlas only. Exceptionally well done maps that show the ambitious public works projects of the time. Maps are without color and bound in quarter leather green textured paper covered boards with "Poussin. Travaux d'amelioration En Amerique. Atlas" stamped in gilt on the spine.

Publication List No: 2329.000

Publication Type: National Atlas

Publication Maps: 10

Publication Height cm: 51

Publication Width cm: 36

Image No: 2329003

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