Le Rouge, Georges-Louis.

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

bidding is closed

Description

Atlas Ameriquain septentrional contenant les details des differentes provinces de ce vaste continent, traduit des cartes levees par ordre du Gouvernement Britannique par le Major Holland, Evans, Scull, Mouzon, Ross, Cook... Paris, 1778
paper

Folio (535 x 385mm.), engraved frontispiece, title incorporating table of contents and 17 engraved maps (on 23 sheets), inset maps and plans, most maps hand-coloured in outline, bookplate of Leander van Esse, eighteenth-century half calf, upper joint weak, upper and lower section of spine missing

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."

Catalogue Note

A fine example of this important French atlas, compiled on France's entry into the war, for use by the French (and American) forces during the Revolutionary War. Designed as parallel for the great British atlases of North America, assembled by Faden and Sayer and Bennett, it brings together French copies of the great British surveys of the region, notably John Mitchell's landmark wall-map of the British Dominions in North America (dated 1777, with the note on German Town inserted), Jefferys' New England, Montresor's New York Province, Scull's Pennsylvania, Fry and Jefferson's Virginia, Mouzon's North and South Carolina, de Brahm's South Carolina and Georgia, and Jefferys' chart of the Gulf Coast, Florida and the Bahamas, and other important maps of Nova Scotia, Delaware Bay and so on.

As such, it is the most important contemporary French cartographic record of the various theatres of fighting in the Revolutionary War.