COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793
Author:
D'Houdan
Date:
1790
Short Title:
Atlas National de France : Departement des Hautes Alpes
Publisher:
Chez Lattre
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
50
Obj Width cm:
62
Scale 1:
12,000
Note:
Engraved outline hand color map of Alps. Includes list of Departments, place names and notes. Relief shown by hachures and shadings. At upper margin: sheet numbered 75 and 35.
Country:
Switzerland
Region:
Alps
Subject:
Classical
Full Title:
Atlas National de France : Departement des Hautes Alpes. Decrete ...1790 par l'Assemblee-Nationale. Grave par de'Houdan. (to accompany) Atlas Geographique contenant la Mappemonde et les quatre parties, avec les differents Etats, avec apprpbation & privilage du Roy MDCC.LXIII (1763).
List No:
11335.053
Page No:
75
Series No:
53
Publication Author:
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793
Publication Author:
Delahaye, Guillaume-Nicolas
Publication Author:
Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles
Pub Date:
1763
Pub Title:
Atlas Geographique contenant la Mappemonde et les quatre parties, avec les differents Etats, avec apprpbation & privilage du Roy MDCC.LXIII. A Paris, Chez Lattre Graveur, ordinaire de Mgr. le Dauphin, de Mgr. le Duc d'Orleans et de la Ville, rue St. Jacques, vis-a-vis celle de la Parcheminerie, a la Ville de Bordeaux.
Pub Note:
Atlas containing 51 maps; 49 folded leaves with 2 two preliminary maps inserted from other copies, 6 maps inserted at the end, table of contents and text. This is the folio version of Lattre's smaller atlas, see our 2612.000. Maps are hand-color in outline, many with additional original hand-color in part, with title cartouche, dated between 1759-1784, one map date 1816 later added to the atlas. Maps are made by De l'Isle, Buache, Janvier, Rizzi Zannoni, St. Angelo, Bonne, Jaillot, Robert de Vaugondy, and Lattre. Showing political and administrative boundaries, rivers, place names, canals, fortifications, forests, lakes, etc. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Bound in brown marbled half leather covers with title "Atlas Geogra" in gilt on spine. Lattre's dedication of the map to Benjamin Franklin, who as American ambassador to France, represented the United States at the peace negotiations.
Pub List No:
11335.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
50
Pub Height cm:
56
Pub Width cm:
43
Image No:
11335053.jp2
Authors:
Lattre, Jean, 1743 -1793; D'Houdan
Link To Source
Atlas National de France : Departement des Hautes Alpes
