Plan of the Rapids or Falls of the Ohio

Subject

Ohio Falls, Ohio Rapids, Fort Louisville

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

[Bertrand, A.]

Place of Publication

[Paris]

Accession Number
2086
Alternate number
Cusachs Collection
Condition
Poor. Very acidified, much browning, foxing, staining. 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 17 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.

Size
5 3/4 x 7 1/2
Storage
c02d07