Newberry Library - Carte de la riuierre de la Gironde et partie de celle de la Garone auec les plans des fortifications qui sont sur les dittes riuierres

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Title Carte de la riuierre de la Gironde et partie de celle de la Garone auec les plans des fortifications qui sont sur les dittes riuierres

Date 1725

Place France--Gironde Estuary

Language French

Subjects Fortification, Manuscript maps

Description Insets (169 x 208 mm. and smaller): Chateau Trompette -- Blaye -- Tour de l'isle devant Blaye -- Fort de Medoc -- Tour de Corduan. The third and fifth insets are elevations; the others are maps.
Side margins include brief notes on 16 European navies with accompanying drawings of ship flags ("pavillons").
Oriented with north at lower right.
Towns shown pictorially.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, red, brown, yellow, blue); mounted on cloth.
Sheet 114 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. Shot from 4x5 transparency.

Summary Details fortifications in the Gironde River valley from the Bordeaux and Libourne regions northward past junctions with the Garonne and Dordogne rivers to the Bay of Biscay.

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 312 x 822 mm, on sheet 558 x 1,056 mm

Format Manuscript maps, Maps--Early works to 1800, Nautical charts

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

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Ayer MS map 30 sheet 114

BibID 991815138805867

Size 9449px × 4672px 126.33 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Filename 991815138805867_ayer_ms_map_30_sheet_114.tif

Unique Identifier NL11KMNQ

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