Historic Maps » Map of the Country Of The Illinois. by Collot, George Henri Victor ; Tardieu, P.F. from 1796

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Author: Collot, George Henri Victor ; Tardieu, P.F.

Date: 1796

Short Title: Map of the Country Of The Illinois.

Publisher: Paris: Arthus Bertrand

Type: Atlas Map

Obj Height cm: 37

Obj Width cm: 60

Scale 1: 130,000

Note: A superbly detailed map of the Mississippi River from the junction with the Illinois to the junction with the Kaskaskias River, especially good in the area around St. Louis. Uncolored.

Reference: P1214-28; Streeter 1789; Eberstadt 137-132; Buck 48; Sabin 14460; WC 31a:2a; Howes C601; Wheat 236; Karrow 1-1228.

State/Province: Missouri

City: Saint Louis (Mo.)

Region: Mississippi River

Subject: Military

Full Title: Map of the Country Of The Illinois. PL. 28.

List No: 4664.018

Series No: 18

Publication Author: Collot, George Henri Victor ; Tardieu, P.F.

Pub Date: 1796

Pub Title: A Journey in North America, containing a Survey of the Countries watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and other Affluing Rivers; with Exact Observations on the Course and Soundings of these Rivers; and on the Towns, Villages, Hamlets, and Farms of that Part of the New World; followed by Philosophical, Political, Military and Commercial Remarks, and by a Projected Line of Frontiers and General Limits. Illustrated by an Atlas of 36 Maps, etc. By Gen. V. Callot, late in the French Service, and Governor of Guadeloupe.

Pub Reference: P1214; Streeter 1789; Eberstadt 137-132; Buck 48; Sabin 14460; WC 31a:2a; Howes C601; Wheat 236; Karrow 1-1228.

Pub Note: "This group of maps appears in Collot's ""Journey in North America..."" They are some of the earliest maps of the Ohio River valley (in great detail) and the Mississippi River valley. Sabin notes: ""This work was printed both in French and English, but not published, at the time of General Collot's death, which happened in 1805. More than twenty years afterwards, the whole impression came into the hands of M. Bertrand...The journey was undertaken in 1796, at the request of Adet..."" The work was published in 1826, but engraved and printed in 1805 based on a journey in 1796. The strange delay in publishing is explained best in Wagner Camp. The atlas and two text volumes are superlatively rare (Howes ""dd"", Eberstadt: ""extraordinarily rare"")."

Pub List No: 4664.000

Pub Type: National Atlas

Pub Maps: 22

Image No: 4664018

Institution: Rumsey Collection

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