Newberry Library - Plan du haure ou port de Louis-Bourg

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Title Plan du haure ou port de Louis-Bourg

Date 1716

Place Louisbourg (N.S.), Nova Scotia--Louisbourg

Language French

Subjects Fortification, Manuscript maps, Nautical charts

Description Sheet 94 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..
Depths shown with soundings; relief shown with shading.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, red, brown, grey, yellow); mounted on cloth. Shot from 4x5 transparency.

Summary Map and nautical chart of Louisbourg detailing proposed fortifications and sight lines of cannon batteries; keyed to references A-I in left margin. Accompanied on adjacent sheet by a view: Veüe du Port de Louis-Bourg dans l'Isle Royalle (Ayer MS map 30, sheet 95). See brief descriptions by David Buisseret in Mapping the French Empire in North America (Chicago: Newberry Library, 1991) plate 18, p. [38]-39 and "A Cartographer's view of the French empire in the early 18th century: the collection called Cartes Marines at the Newberry Library" in Proceedings of the Eighth annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, 1982 (1985) p. 11 and plate 3.

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 486 x 487 mm, on sheet 562 x 723 mm

Format Early works to 1800, 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 94

BibID 991813898805867

Size 5435px × 4404px 68.50 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Filename 991813898805867_ayer_ms_map_30_sheet_94.tif

Unique Identifier NL11KMGI

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Projects Tag Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection

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