Plan de la ville et du port de Boston : capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre

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Plan de la ville et du port de Boston
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Title:
Plan de la ville et du port de Boston : capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre
Description:
This is the earliest detailed plan of the city of Boston published in France. Beautifully engraved and colored in the best style of French manuscript and printed maps, it shows streets, houses, public buildings, wharves, Beacon Hill, the Common, and other points of interest. Bellin, hydrographer to the King of France, published many fine maps of America under the auspices of the French Marine Office. This plan of Boston Harbor was probably copied from an English survey for use during the French and Indian War.
Creator:
Lattré, Jean
Date:
[1764?]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Private Collection
Collection (local):
Mapping Boston Collection
Subjects:
Boston (Mass.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 map : col. ; 47 x 67 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
Paris : Chés Lattré
Scale:
Scale ca. 1:11,300
Language:
French
Notes:
Hand colored.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes text, ward index, and index to points of interest.
Attributed to Bellin in Boston Engineering Department's List of maps of Boston published between 1600 and 1903.
Identifier:
06_01_001209
Barcode:
39999052508064