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Plan de la Nouvelle Orleans.

  • ARTIST: Jacques Bellin

  • PUBLISHER: Published by Jean Francois de La Harpe, Paris.

  • MEDIUM: Copper engraving,

    DATE: 1747-80.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image 7 5/8 x 10 7/8" (19.3 x 27.7 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: A beautiful map of this fine American City. Tome XIV. No. 19. From Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages, Paris, 1747-80. This early French plan provides a detailed look at New Orleans' Vieux Carre. Streets are named on the plan itself. Above it a key locates such major sites as prisons, powder magazine, Place d'Armes with the Cathedral, hospital and Urseline convent. Individual buildings and plots are shown in each block.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Manuscript number written along lower edge. No. 262.

  • CONDITION: Fine condition. Black and white.

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  • CATEGORIES: Maps