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The Mapping of North America

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George Louis Le Rouge it appears was born in Hannover 28 August 1704 where the parents who are recorded as being French went by the name of Noel and Maria Anna Rouger. Upon their return to France George Louis Le Rouge became a military engineer for the French and took up cartography from about 1740 in the Rud des Grands Augustins, Paris. He was made Geographe du Roy by Louis XV and died in 1778. Phillips, P.L. (Atlases) 5983-14.
LE ROUGE, George Louis

Les Isles du Spitsberg

Paris, 1748
205 x 275 mm., early outline colour, light discolouration to upper centrefold, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 7723
£ 125
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