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Baie de la Delaware. Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876, 1834

Baie de la Delaware. / Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876 / 1834
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Full Title: Plan hydrographique de la partie de la Baie de la Delaware qui avoisine le breakwater ou port artificiel que l'on y a construit. (with) Plan general de la Baie de la Delaware et de la position occupee par le port artificiel construir a son embouchure. (with) Plan general de la Baie et du breakwater de Plymouth. (with) Plan general de la rade et de la Baie de Cherbourg. (with) Section transversale du breakwater ou jetee de Plymouth. (with) Section transversale de la Digue de Cherbourg et profil de l'enrochment de 1784. (with) Section transversale du breakwater ou jetee de la Delaware. 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: Baie de la Delaware.

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

Type: Atlas Map ; Chart Atlas

Object Height cm: 39

Object Width cm: 54

Scale 1: 44,000

Note: Engraved map with 6 insets. Soundings in English fathoms. Numbered Fig. 1-7.

Country: England ; France

State / Province: Delaware

City: Plymouth (England) ; Cherbourg (France)

Subject: Shipping

Full Title: Plan hydrographique de la partie de la Baie de la Delaware qui avoisine le breakwater ou port artificiel que l'on y a construit. (with) Plan general de la Baie de la Delaware et de la position occupee par le port artificiel construir a son embouchure. (with) Plan general de la Baie et du breakwater de Plymouth. (with) Plan general de la rade et de la Baie de Cherbourg. (with) Section transversale du breakwater ou jetee de Plymouth. (with) Section transversale de la Digue de Cherbourg et profil de l'enrochment de 1784. (with) Section transversale du breakwater ou jetee de la Delaware. Dessine par le Major Poussin. Grave par (V.?) Adam. (1834)

List No: 2329.006

Page No: pl. VI

Series No: 10

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: 2329006

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