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Floride, Delta du Mississippi canal. Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876, 1834

Floride, Delta du Mississippi canal. / Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876 / 1834
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Full Title: Carte generale de la Floride et du Delta du Mississippi, presentant le trace du canal projete de l'Ocean Atlantique au Golfe du Mexique, a travers l'Isthme des Florides, ainsi qui l'ensemble des ameliorations projetees ou en cours d'execution qui one ete recommandees par la Commission des ameliorations interieures pour completer le systeme de navigation interieure parallele a la cote. (with) Entree du Fleuve St. Jean. (with) Entree de la Rade et de la Riviere Ste. Marie. (with) Entree du Port Ste. Augustine. 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: Floride, Delta du Mississippi canal.

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

Type: Atlas Map ; Chart Atlas

Object Height cm: 48

Object Width cm: 66

Scale 1: 1,700,000

Note: Engraved map with 3 insets. Insets numbered Fig. 1-3. Includes profile in 2 segments.

State / Province: Florida ; Louisiana ; Alabama ; Mississippi

Subject: Canals ; Shipping

Full Title: Carte generale de la Floride et du Delta du Mississippi, presentant le trace du canal projete de l'Ocean Atlantique au Golfe du Mexique, a travers l'Isthme des Florides, ainsi qui l'ensemble des ameliorations projetees ou en cours d'execution qui one ete recommandees par la Commission des ameliorations interieures pour completer le systeme de navigation interieure parallele a la cote. (with) Entree du Fleuve St. Jean. (with) Entree de la Rade et de la Riviere Ste. Marie. (with) Entree du Port Ste. Augustine. Dessine par le Major Poussin. Grave par (V.?) Adam. (1834)

List No: 2329.007

Page No: pl. VII

Series No: 11

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: 2329007

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