Chart of the Sources of the Mobile and of the River Yazoo

Sub-Title

Including a part of the Course of the Mississipi (sic) From the River Margot to the Natches (sic)

Subject

Mobile River, Yazoo River, Nogales, Natchez, Fort St. Stephens

Date

1796 (historical)

Mapmaker

[Tardieu, Jean Baptiste Pierre (l'ainé)], engraver

Publisher

[Bertrand, A.]

Place of Publication

[Paris]

Accession Number

03140b

Alternate number

Cusachs Collection

Condition

Poor-fair. Much foxing, browning, acidification, staining, some surfcae dirt. 1 1/2" hole, upper center, mostly in margin. Large tear, lower left quadrant, in left vertical fold line, bottom right margin. Needs conservation.

Curatorial Notes

Allegedly, all but 100 copies of the English and 300 copies of the French editions were destroyed. See Phillips, Vol. 1, p. 664, #1214-15.

Notes

Plate 33 from Georges Henri Victor Collot's "Voyage dans 'Amerique Septentrionale." Published posthumously, Collot's survey in 1796 was part of an intelligence mission into Spanish Louisiana and Florida in preparation for a possible French attack on the Spanish colonies. Collot was arrested by Governor Carondelet and expelled from the colony. Both English and French editions of the atlas were printed in 1805, but not published until 1826.

Size

16 x 23 1/2

Storage

c02d07