Canada et Lousiane

Reference: ms2976
Author Georg Louis le ROUGE
Year: 1755 ca.
Zone: Canada & Loisiana
Printed: Paris
Measures: 490 x 610 mm
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Reference: ms2976
Author Georg Louis le ROUGE
Year: 1755 ca.
Zone: Canada & Loisiana
Printed: Paris
Measures: 490 x 610 mm
Not Available

Description

Uncommon map showing eastern part of the United States and Canada coast. Boundaries coloured according key, indicating French, Spanish and English possessions. Small inset showing Niagara Falls.

With an engraved key mentioning both English and French boundaries pretension. With German translation underneath this key.
This map was published by George Louis Le Rouge's in his Atlas Ameriquain in 1755.

This map clearly shows a French bias and portraits a greatly reduced British presence in North America. Fort Duquesne is show in two places on the map, according to D'Anville and Jeffrey's. Crossed swords mark the battles between the French and British at Fort Duquesne and Crown Point, below Lake Champlain.

Georg Louis le ROUGE (1721-1790 circa)

A military engineer by profession, Le Rouge took up cartography and over a long period from about 1740 to 1780 produced many attractive works covering a wide range of subjects, including plans of fortifications, military campaigns, town plans as well as the more usual atlases and sea charts. 1741-62 Atlas General 1742 Recueil des cartes Nouvelles (including a reissue on reduced scale of Henry Popple’s map of America of 1733) 1748 Atlas Nouveau Portatif (4to) 1756,c.1767 re-issued 1755 Recueil des Plans de l’ Amerique(8vo) 1756 Introduction de Geographie 1758 Atlas Prussien 1759 recueil des villes ,portes d’ Angleterre (8vo) 1760 Topographie des Chemins d’ Angleterre (8vo) 1778 Atlas Ameriquain Septentrional

Georg Louis le ROUGE (1721-1790 circa)

A military engineer by profession, Le Rouge took up cartography and over a long period from about 1740 to 1780 produced many attractive works covering a wide range of subjects, including plans of fortifications, military campaigns, town plans as well as the more usual atlases and sea charts. 1741-62 Atlas General 1742 Recueil des cartes Nouvelles (including a reissue on reduced scale of Henry Popple’s map of America of 1733) 1748 Atlas Nouveau Portatif (4to) 1756,c.1767 re-issued 1755 Recueil des Plans de l’ Amerique(8vo) 1756 Introduction de Geographie 1758 Atlas Prussien 1759 recueil des villes ,portes d’ Angleterre (8vo) 1760 Topographie des Chemins d’ Angleterre (8vo) 1778 Atlas Ameriquain Septentrional