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Carte particuliere de l'embouchure du fleuve St. Louis ou sont marqué les passes avec les sondes justes prises à mer basse, ainsy la situation du...

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Title Carte particuliere de l'embouchure du fleuve St. Louis ou sont marqué les passes avec les sondes justes prises à mer basse, ainsy la situation du...

Date 1726

Place Louisiana--Fort Balise, Louisiana--Mississippi River Delta

Language French

Subjects Fortification, Manuscript maps, Nautical charts

Description Sheet 82 of 115 (i.e. 117; includes sheets 71A and 106A) numbered leaves in the Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, detailing French colonial interests worldwide, ca. 1640-ca. 1726.
Oriented with north at upper left.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, brown, red, yellow, blue); mounted on cloth.
Associated with Adrien Pauger and an engineer named La Tour; see Jackson, J. Manuscript maps concerning the Gulf Coast (Chicago: Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, 1995) p. 35-36, no. 173.
Related to manuscripts variously dated 1722-1740 in the Newberry Library (Ayer MS map 30, sheet 83, Ayer MS map 156 and Ayer MS map 157), the Bibliotheque Nationale (Ge DD 2987-8823, Ge DD 2987-8824, and "Bibliotheque Impâeriale R.C. 4138"), the Archives Nationales (A.N. N3 no. 3), the Service Hydrographique archives (S.H.A. 138-3-6), and the British Library (Additional 15,332 ki and kii). Photostats of the manuscripts in Europe (excluding "Bibliotheque Impâeriale R.C. 4138") form part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library). Shot from 4x5 transparency.

Summary Nautical chart of the Mississippi River Delta; depths shown with soundings. Identifies the delta's main channels and Fort Balise on Toulouse Island (later submerged), and includes references A and B; cf. Roberts, R.B. Encyclopedia of historic forts (1988).

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 588 x 904 mm

Format Early works, Manuscript maps, Maps, Nautical charts

Archival Collection Title Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS map 30 sheet 82

BibID 991759908805867

Projects Tag Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 5584px × 3762px 60.12 MB

Filename 991759908805867_ayer_ms_map_30_sheet_82.tif

Unique Identifier NL11KMCP

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