Carte générale de l'Amérique séptentrionale : avec les posséssions Angloises dans cette partie du nouveau monde

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Carte générale de l'Amérique séptentrionale
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Title:
Carte générale de l'Amérique séptentrionale : avec les posséssions Angloises dans cette partie du nouveau monde
Creator:
Le Rouge, Georges-Louis
Contributor:
Popple, Henry, -1743
Contributor:
Crépy (Firm)
Name on Item:
dressée sur la carte de Pople [sic], publiée à Londres en 20 feuilles, pour servir à l'intelligence de la guerre présente.
Date:
[1755?–1763?]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
New York Public Library
Collection (local):
Maps of North America
Subjects:
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Great Britain--Colonies--America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
North America (area)
Extent:
1 map : hand color ; 48 x 47 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 : Chez Crepy rue St. Jacques à St. Pierre près la rue de la Parcheminerie
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:14,000,000]
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-eea0-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridians: Paris and London.
Includes list of abbreviations, decorative cartouche, compass rose and 18 insets.
French key map state 3, according to Babinski.
Author attribution and publishing date taken from Babinski's analysis of Popple's 1733 map.
Map attributed to Le Rouge based on reference in W.P. Cumming's Southeast in early maps, no. 216. The earliest edition of Le Rouge's map appeared ca.1742.
Map based on Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto (1733).
Library's acquisition record dates the map 1755. The OCLC record is for a 1763? edition. There is no evidence on the map as to its specific date.