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Relation to the discovery of the Mississipi [sic] River
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Map of LaSalle Coal Mining Company's lands : with vertical section, showing the position of the coal
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A map to show the coal veins under the mining company's property. La Salle Coal Mining Company was founded in 1855, so map must be after that date. Note powder magazine set perilously close to "Miner's Houses." MS note: 81839. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Mississipi (sic) River from Iberville to Yazous
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Kashnor notes, "Shows the old French settlement of Point Coupee. The map may have been issued with the idea of a descent upon the back settlements by the English forces during the Revolution. It locates Natches Cliff and ends with the fork of the Yazoo River, where stands the present day Vicksburg." Compass with 4°30' declination shown. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles, English statute. Projection: Plane. Watermark: J B J Bates. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 96.
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Mappemonde géo-hydrographique ou description générale du globe terrestre et aquatique : en deux plans hémispheres, oú sont exactement remarqués en général toutes les parties de la terre scavoir l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique, l'Amérique Septentrionale, et l'Amérique Méridionale où sont encor remarquées en général toutes les parties de l'eau, scavoir, de l'océan, et de la mer, et les principaux golfes, lacs, destroits, et rivieres, qui sont dans la surface du globe terrestre, suivant les relations le pl. nouvelles / par S. Jaillot, Géogr. Ordne. du Roy
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Alternate title in MS on cover. Detailed map with tracks of explorers including Cook. Furneaux, Clark & Gore. Upper cartouche: "On trouve à Paris, chez le Sr. Desnos, Libraire, Ingenr. Géogre. du Roy de Dannemark, Rue St. Jacques, au Globe, toutes les Cartes des différents Auteurs. Par le St. Jaillot; et augmentée des Voyages et Découvertes du Célèbre Capitaine Cook qui, après avoir porté l'art Naval jusqu'au dernier degré de la har diesse, et avoir achevé la reconnoissance du Globe, a terminé sa glorieuse carriere de la maniere la plus tragique en 1779; ayant été assomé et poignard�� par les Insulaires d'O-why-hée située près du Tropique du Cancer, dans la Mer du Sud, On a ajouté aux Découvertes de ce grand Navigateur les Voyages de ceux qui ont fait avec lui le tour du Monde. Par M. Brion de la Tour Ingénieur-Géographe du Roi, Auteur de l'Atlas Général destiné spécialement à l'instruction de la jeune Noblesse de l'Ecole Royale Militaire en 1789." Lower catouche: "Avis Les Routes des celebres Navigateurs tracées sur cette Mappe-Monde sont désignees par differentes couleurs, Celles du Capitaine Cook en bleu, Celles de Capitaines Clark et Gore en vert, Celles du Capitaine Furneaux en jaune, a Paris, Chez le Sr. Desnos Ingr. Geographe et Libraire de Sa Majesté Danoise rue St. Jacques au Globe où se trouvent les Cartes du Fond du Sr. Jaillot et celles de differens Auteurs, 1782." Original map by Nicolas Sanson, redrawn on a larger scale and with fresh embellishments by Jaillot, who had acquired the plates after Sanson's death. One of the earliest editions of this map, as redrawn by Jaillot, is dated 1674, and appears in Sanson's Atlas nouveau, 1689--Cf. Tooley, R.V. A dictionary of mapmakers; Fordham, H.G. Some notable surveyors; and RB 180718. Cartouche: Gods & Goddesses. Figures in surround, elaborate art work. Prime meridian: Fer. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: Mappemonde.
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Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi : dresseé sur un grand nombre de memoires entrau tres sur ceux de Mr. le Maire / par Guillaume De l'Isle de l'Academie Rle. des Sciences
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This is a reproduction of part of the de l'Isle map of 1718. First use noted on catalog card as 1942. See Museum Bookstore Collection 093:550 for the original and 105:478 and 150047 for later editions of the original. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Old French Map La. Maps -La. Lisle, G. de Carte de Louisiane. np. 1718.
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François-Marie La Bintinaye letters to Dr. Walker King, (bulk 1789-1803)
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Letters from l'abbé de la Bintinaye to Dr. Walker King, bishop of Rochester, including pieces intended to be forwarded to Dr. King's brother John King (1759-1830) , Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office. Included are letters discussing de La Bintanaye' work on French translation of Edmund Burke's writings and his translation of "plantations laws." Also included are petitions from Dom Augustine de Lestrange (1754-1827) and Trappist monks (1800), the clergy of the Protestant church in Voltaire-Ferney in the Pays de Gex (1824), and French proprietors of a plantation in Matrinique (between 1809 and 1814). Also included is a note to John King regarding a obtaining a passport to a Canadian priest traveling to France (1803, Feb. 10) and a French translation of God Save the King and a poem to "His Britannic Majesty" set to the music of the British anthem composed by French royalists who had settled in British Canada.
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Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière letter to Monsieur L'Héritier
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Letter written by Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière to French botanist [Charles Louis] L'Héritier (1746-1800). The letter states that La Billardière sent specimens to L'Héritier for Baltic German botanist [Johann Gerhard] König (1728-1785) and British botanist [Sir James Edward] Smith (1759-1828). The letter, written from Paris in 1791, is in French; one page consists of the address.
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