COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Le Rouge, Georges-Louis, 1712-1790
Date:
1743
Short Title:
Bataille de Campo Santo en Italie du 8 Fevrier 1743.
Publisher:
Sr. le Rouge
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
31
Obj Width cm:
47
Scale 1:
9,750
Note:
Hand colored map of the Battle of Campo Santo. Showing the fortification, position of armies, canals, rivers, forests and buildings. Includes legend and compass rose.
City:
Camposanto (Italy)
Subject:
Military
Full Title:
Bataille de Campo Santo en Italie du 8 Fevrier 1743. A Paris, Chez le Sieur Le Rouge ... 1746. (to accompany) Recueil contenant des cartes nouvelles ... A Paris, Par et chez le Sr. le Rouge 1742.
List No:
11793.039
Page No:
37
Series No:
39
Publication Author:
Le Rouge, Georges-Louis, 1712-1790
Pub Date:
1742
Pub Title:
Recueil contenant des cartes nouvelles dressees sur des morceaux leves sur les lieux et les memoires les plus nouveaux. Dedie a Monseigneur le Comte d'Argencon Ministre de la Guerre. A Paris, Par et chez le Sr. le Rouge Ingenieur Geographe du Roy rue des grands Augustins vis-a-vis le panier fleuri. Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roy 1742.
Pub Note:
Atlas with manuscript table of contents on the cover, printed table of contents listing 21 maps above title: Cartes contenuees dans ce recueil, and engraved title cartouche decorated with flowers, jewels, armor, helmeted head, oriental soldier, weapons and head of a young girl at the lower center (although this title page appears to be for another atlas entirely - just added to this essentially composite atlas). Atlas containing 54 new single or double pages maps and plans, relating to the wars of the Austrian Succession, 1741-1748. Maps are engraved hand colored in outline, showing fortifications, canals, bridges, place names buildings and landmarks. Most of the maps are signed by Le Rouge and dated between 1741-1748. dedicated to Monseigneur the Count of Argencon Minister of War. Maps are bound in light brown worn marbled paper-covered boards. Quarter bound with medium brown leather. Front cover has a large pasted in manuscript title label "No. 6. Cartes nouvelles, le Rouge Ingenieur Geographe du Roy 1741" and Table of contents " Inventaire des cartes contenant dans a l'atlas". Le Rouge was a cartographer, engraver and architect of the eighteenth century, a geographer and engineer of King Louis XV, also military engineer for fortifications. He was active between 1740 and 1780, in Paris at, rue des Augustins, and author of atlas, maps, battle plans, and fortifications of fortresses.
Pub List No:
11793.000
Pub Type:
Military Atlas
Pub Maps:
54
Pub Height cm:
56
Pub Width cm:
38
Image No:
11793039.jp2
Authors:
Le Rouge, Georges-Louis, 1712-1790
