General Map of the River Ohio, A

Sub-Title
from its source to its mouth: containing the names of the Towns[,] Villages[,] and Farms established at present on its banks: together with its soundings, and courses.
Subject

Ohio River from the confluence of the Mississippi River east Fort Jefferson, Fort Massac, Fort Hardens, Doe Run, Fort Jefferson.

Date
1796 (historical)
Mapmaker
Tardieu, [Jean Baptiste Pierre] (l'ainé), engraver
Publisher

[Bertrand, A.]

Place of Publication

[Paris]

Accession Number
2075
Alternate number
Cusachs Collection
Condition
Fair. Foxing, staining, browning, surface dirt.
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 11 {four of four of the Ohio River} from Georges Henri Victor Collot's 1826 "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.

Media Type
mounted on cloth
Size
11 5/8 x 37
Storage
c02d07