Plan de la Nlle. Orleans, ville capitalle de la Louissianne

Dumont de Montigny

[1747]

Scale [ca. 1:20,000]

French

Newberry Library

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

• Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
• New Orleans (La.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Land grants--Louisiana--New Orleans--Maps--Early works to 1800

• Louisiana
• New Orleans
• North and Central America
• Orleans (county)
• United States

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 340 x 455 mm.

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• Oriented with the northwest at the top.
• Note on verso: No. 7, page 133.
• Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, gray, red).
• No. 7 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
• Related map published as Plan de la Nouvelle Orleans, capitale de la Louisiane in Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane (Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753) v. 2, bet. p. 50-51.
• Photostats of related manuscript maps in the French Ministère de la Guerre archives and the Archives Nationales, shelfmarks "Guerre. Etat-Major 7C 216" and "A.N. N³ no.1¹", form part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library).
• Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.