Amerique Septentrionale avec les Routes, Distances en miles, Villages et Etablissements François et Anglois [North America with the Routes and Distances in Miles, [with] French and English Villages and Settlements]
North America from Newfoundland to the mouth of the Rio Grande, north of the Great Lakes, and south to the Mississippi River delta. Hudson Bay, North American boundary disputes. Pinckney's Treaty, Louisiana Purchase, Florida Parishes, Revolutionary War, Quebec Act of 1774, Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, North Atlantic Coast Arbitration.
Le Rouge, George Louis
Paris
Framed. 8 sheets combined to make 4 sheets. Earlier catalog worksheet notes this is third imprint of fifth edition. No evidence to support this conclusion found in literature extant at the time of this writing (2/19/99). Elaborate title cartouche featuring sumbols of the New World: Indians, corn, palms; French fleur de lis; putti, See Phillips, Vol. !, p. 662, #1212. See also, "Dr. John Mitchell, the Man Who Made the Map of North America," by Edmund and Dorothy Berkely. Stores LSM map curator reference book area, LHC.
French edition of Mitchell's 1755 "Map of America, " published as plates 5-8 in Le Rouge's 1778 "Atlas Amériquain Septentrional." Inclues German text, after Mitchell's 1775 German edition of his original map. Mitchell used reports, journals, and maps held in the archives of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to delineate British claims to North America. France considered Mitchell's map accurate enough to reproduce it for their own use. Until the signing of the 1783 Treaty, it was considered to be the best available map outlining disputed boundary lines in North America. In Louisiana, it was used to determine the boundaries with Spain in 1803, Pinckney's Treaty in 1795, and the boundary dispute over the Florida Parishes. It was instrumental during peace negotiations concerning Britain's rights in Ohio and the Mississippi Valley at the end of the Revolutionary War, the Quebec Act of 1774, the Canadian- American border dispute of 1783, and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842. In 1910 Britain based her disagreement concerning the North Atlantic Coast Arbitration on this map, and in 1932 it was used in a New Jersey-Delaware boundary dispute.