Le Royaume D'Ecosse Divisé en ses parties Meridionale et Septentrionale

Reference: ms4143
Author Georg Louis le ROUGE
Year: 1756 ca.
Zone: Scotland
Printed: Paris
Measures: 215 x 275 mm
€125.00

Reference: ms4143
Author Georg Louis le ROUGE
Year: 1756 ca.
Zone: Scotland
Printed: Paris
Measures: 215 x 275 mm
€125.00

Description

Map taken from the "Introduction a la Geographie" published from 1747 and 1756, printed in "Paris, chez l'Auteur, Prault le fils, la Veuve Robinot, 1756".

The work, which the author defines as "Atlas Nouveau Portatif à l'Usage des Militaires et du Voyageur", contains 86 maps.

Copperplate with original outline colour, very good conditions.

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