COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Plan Of Fort Des Ecores at Margot.
Obj Height cm:
19
Obj Width cm:
27
Scale 1:
2,880
Note:
One of the earliest, if not the first, map of the area that became Memphis, Tennessee. From the atlas to Collot's "Journey in North America." Uncolored with scale in fathoms.
Reference:
P1214-31; Streeter 1789; Eberstadt 137-132; Buck 48; Sabin 14460; WC 31a:2a; Howes C601; Wheat 236; Karrow 1-1228.
Full Title:
Plan Of Fort Des Ecores at Margot. PL. 31.
List No:
4664.021
Series No:
21
Pub Date:
1796
Pub Title:
A Journey in North America, containing a Survey of the Countries watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and other Affluing Rivers; with Exact Observations on the Course and Soundings of these Rivers; and on the Towns, Villages, Hamlets, and Farms of that Part of the New World; followed by Philosophical, Political, Military and Commercial Remarks, and by a Projected Line of Frontiers and General Limits. Illustrated by an Atlas of 36 Maps, etc. By Gen. V. Callot, late in the French Service, and Governor of Guadeloupe.
Pub Reference:
P1214; Streeter 1789; Eberstadt 137-132; Buck 48; Sabin 14460; WC 31a:2a; Howes C601; Wheat 236; Karrow 1-1228.
Pub Note:
This group of maps appears in Collot's "Journey in North America..." They are some of the earliest maps of the Ohio River valley (in great detail) and the Mississippi River valley. Sabin notes: "This work was printed both in French and English, but not published, at the time of General Collot's death, which happened in 1805. More than twenty years afterwards, the whole impression came into the hands of M. Bertrand...The journey was undertaken in 1796, at the request of Adet..." The work was published in 1826, but engraved and printed in 1805 based on a journey in 1796. The strange delay in publishing is explained best in Wagner Camp. The atlas and two text volumes are superlatively rare (Howes "dd", Eberstadt: "extraordinarily rare").
Pub List No:
4664.000
Pub Maps:
22
Image No:
4664021
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 1998
Publisher Location:
Paris
Publisher:
Arthus Bertrand
Type:
Atlas Map
State/Province:
Tennessee
City:
Memphis
Region:
Mississippi River
Publication Author:
Collot, George Henri Victor
Publication Author:
Tardieu, P.F.
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Author:
Collot, George Henri Victor
Author:
Tardieu, P.F.
Date:
1796
Plan Of Fort Des Ecores at Margot.
