COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-0024
File Name:
C-0024-004
Call number:
Cabinet B756 1.1
Map title:
[Map of the Mississippi River valley in North America]
Place of Publication:
Paris
Publisher:
par Le Rouge, ingr. géographe du roy rue des Grands Augustins 1756
Publication date:
[1776]
Map size height:
130 cm.
Map size width:
142 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map on 8 sheets in 4, colored
Geographical description:
Map of the Mississippi River valley in North America. This section includes part of Canada.
Source title:
Amérique septentrionale avec les routes, distances en miles, villages, et etablissements françois et anglois par le docteur Mitchel. Traduit de l'Anglois
Source place:
Paris: Le Rouge, [1776]
Cartobibliographic notes:
Copied from "A map of the British and French dominions in North America ...," London, 1755. Additional title: North America so Doctor Michel zu London .. Corigée en 1776 par M. Hawkins, Brigadier des armées du roi. Measurement of map as if all the sheets were joined. At upper right, "Bericht" and "Notte." This map is discussed by Walter Ristow in "John Mitchell's map of the British and French dominions in North America" in A La Carte, Washington, D.C., 1972.
References:
Ristow, "John Mitchell's map," p. 112 (3d. ed., 3d. impression); WLCL 2:88; BMPM 1/443
Geographic Area:
North America
Normalized date:
1776
LC bibliographic number:
b51931874
[Map of the Mississippi River valley in North America]
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