POUSSIN GUILLAUME TELL Atlas to accompany Travaux dAmeliorat

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POUSSIN, GUILLAUME TELL. Atlas to accompany Travaux d'Ameliorations Interieures : Projetes ou Executes par le Gouvernement General des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. 10 double-page plates containing maps, charts, canal profiles, plans, and views. Folio, 510x265 mm, later 1/4 morocco, extremities lightly rubbed; title-page supplied in facsimile, dampstaining in lower outer corners (not affecting images), some offsetting and minor staining throughout. Paris, 1834

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Of particular southern interest containing maps and plans of Gulf Coast and Florida ports, river entrances, bays, straits, coastlines, etc. Atlas also contains plans of many undertaken and proposed canals to improve the internal communications of the United States. Poussin accompanied General Simon Bernard to the United States after the fall of Napoleon and became assistant topographical engineer in the United States army. Rumsey 2329.