Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Vue de Quebec, Capitale du Canada.
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Accession Number:
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35698
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File Name:
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35698-4
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Call number:
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E755 R311d / 1-SIZE
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Map title:
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Vue de Quebec, Capitale du Canada.
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Place of Publication:
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[Paris]
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Publisher:
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[le Rouge]
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Publication date:
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[1777]
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Map size height:
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17.3 cm.
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Map size width:
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25.1 cm.
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Item description:
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engraving
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Geographical description:
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View of Quebec City showing churches, monasteries, city hall, windmills, fortifications, and hospital. Also includes ships. Items in the image are lettered for identification in key at left.
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Source title:
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Recueil des plans de l'Amerique septentrionale
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Source place:
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A Paris
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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This view was probably based on Thomas Johnston's View of Quebec published after General Wolfe's siege of Quebec in 1759. Johnston's map was, however, based on an inset from a French map published forty years earlier in 1719.
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Normalized date:
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1777
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