Plan de la ville et du port de Boston : capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre

Containers:

Drawer 122 : L : 5, Section 2

Creator:

Lattré, Jean

Extent:

1 Sheets

Scope and content:

Displayed here is the first state of Lattre's plan of Boston. The plan here was also separately issued. Describing Boston in the years before the American Revolutionary war, the plan includes information on shoals, soundings in the harbor, and the surrounding countryside. Lattre was the Royal Engraver to Louis XVI from 1776 to 1782, and is most famous for his "Carte des Etats-Unis ...," also in the Richard H. Brown collection.

Language:

French .

Custodial history:

Client reference #197; WAG #289310; IL# 2020-IL-001-111

Cohen & Taliaferro LLC, 2 March 2007.

Material specific details:

Scale ca. 1:11,300. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to Bellin in Boston Engineering Department's List of maps of Boston published between 1600 and 1903. Includes text, ward index, and index to points of interest.

Physical description:

Uneven top margin, edges slightly rough.

Physical facet:

1 map : color

Dimensions:

47 x 67 cm

Other descriptive data:

Paris : Chés Lattré, 1764?

Subjects:

Maps (documents)

Names:

Lattré, Jean

Places:

Boston (Mass.)

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