COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Canal, Mississippi au Lac Pontchartrain.
Obj Height cm:
39
Obj Width cm:
54
Scale 1:
50,000
Note:
Engraved map with 2 insets. Soundings in English feet.
Full Title:
Plan du canal de jonction du Mississippi au Lac Pontchartrain. (with) Canal de Louisville. Profil moyen sur lequel a ete calcule de devis estimatif. (with) Canal de la Chesapeake a la Delaware. Plan du trace, situation des ecluses, nivellement general et profil du canal. Dessine par le Major Poussin. Grave par (V.?) Adam. (1834)
List No:
2329.003
Page No:
pl. III
Series No:
7
Pub Date:
1834
Pub Title:
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.
Pub Reference:
Phillips 1265.
Pub 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.
Pub List No:
2329.000
Pub Maps:
10
Pub Height cm:
51
Pub Width cm:
36
Image No:
2329003
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 2005
Publisher Location:
Paris
Publisher:
Libraire Anselin
Publisher Location:
Paris
Publisher:
Libraire Carilian-Goeury
Type:
Atlas Map
State/Province:
Delaware
State/Province:
Kentucky
State/Province:
Louisiana
Region:
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.)
Region:
New Orleans Region (La.)
Subject:
Canals
Engraver or Printer:
Adam, V.
Engraver or Printer:
Imprimerie de Lachevardiere
Publication Author:
Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Author:
Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876
Date:
1834
Canal, Mississippi au Lac Pontchartrain.
