Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of t[he] United States : projected agreeable to the direction of the President of the United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the sixteenth day of July, MDCCXC, "establishing the permanent seat on the bank of the Potowmac" / by Peter Charles L'Enfant.

Format:

Government document

Map/Atlas

Author/Creator:

L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825.

Contributor:

Library of Congress.

Geological Survey (U.S.)

National Geographic Society (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Washington (D.C.)--To 1800--Maps.

Washington (D.C.).

Early maps--Facsimiles.

Early maps.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

2 maps : color ; 74 x 103 cm + text ([6] pages ; 22 cm)

Scale [ca. 1:15,840].

paper

monochrome

Other Title:

Full-color facsimile of Pierre Charles L'Enfant's 1791 manuscript plan for the city of Washington.

Computer-assisted reproduction of Pierre Charles L'Enfant's 1791 manuscript plan for the city of Washington.

L'Enfant's 1791 manuscript plan of the city of Washington.

Cartographic Data:

Scale [ca. 1:15,840].

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1991.

Notes:

Full color facsim. of the earliest extant plan of Washington, D.C. (The L'Enfant Plan) and computer-assisted reproduction of the original.

"Full color facsimile of Pierre Charles L'Enfant's 1791 manuscript plan for the city of Washington. Published by the Library of Congress in 1991 with support from the National Geographic Society"--Left lower margin of color facsim.

"Computer-assisted reproduction of Pierre Charles L'Enfant's 1791 manuscript plan for the city of Washington, produced by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Library of Congress. Published by the Library of Congress in 1991 with support from the National Geographic Society, the U.S. Geological Society, and the National Park Service."--Left lower margin of reproduction.

Margins printed in beige tint.

Includes text, notes, and index of "References."

Title of text: L'Enfant's 1791 manuscript plan of the city of Washington : full-color facsimile & computer-assisted reproduction.

ISBN:

0844406937

OCLC:

187459417