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subject : British--America--Maps--Early works to 1800
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Hand colored.; Relief shown pictorially.; "The seat of the war in the middle British colonies, containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, & ca."; From the author's The American military pocket atlas. [1776].; Inset: A sketch of the upper parts of Canada.
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, map, chart & printsellers (publisher)
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm) (creator)
Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805. (contributor)
1776
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Relief shown pictorially.; Prime meridian: London and Ferro.; Date in printer statement, in lower right margin: August 15th 1786.; Includes notes and insets of "A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay" and "The passage by land to California ..."; Library's copy consists of halves of two maps joined. The two right neat lines do not align, but all portions of the map do.
Printed for Robt. Sayer (publisher)
Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805. (creator)
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794. (contributor)
1783
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Relief shown pictorially.; Prime meridian: London.; "Engrav'd for Millar's New Complete & Universal SYSTEM of Geography."; Inset: East Florida continued.
Printed for Alex. Hogg (publisher)
Kitchin, Thomas, 1718-1784. (creator)
Millar, George Henry. (contributor)
1782
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Published in: Boundaries, areas, geographic centers and altitudes of the United States and the several states / Edward M. Douglas. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1930. Geological Survey Bulletin 817. 2d Ed.; Relief shown pictorially.; Prime meridian: London.; A reduced facsimile copy of the second edition, London, 1755.; "Printed for Jefferys and Faden, Geographers to the King."; Includes text and inset "A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late surveys of those coasts."; U.S.G.S. title: The Mitchell map of the British and French dominions in North America, 1755.; "Plate 5."
U.S. Geological Survey (publisher)
Mitchell, John, 1711-1768. (creator)
Kitchin, Thomas, d. 1784.; Jefferys and Faden, London. (contributor)
1930
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Prime meridian: London; Mitchell's map is one of the most important cartographic documents in American history. Editions of the map were consulted by the official representatives of Great Britain and the United States during the peace negotiations of 1782 and 1783, and it has frequently been used in subsequent North American boundary disputes.; Inset map: Nouvelle carte de la Baye D' Hudson et de Labrador; Library's copy has "Ticonderoga" misspelled as "Ticonderago" - indicating that sheet 3 is from the second impression.; Library's copy is from the 3rd edition, Mixed Impression, as described in Sellers no. 53. Sheet 3 is from the second impression; the cartouche sheet is probably from the fourth impression.; Watermarks
par le Rouge [...] rue des Grands Augustins (publisher)
Mitchell, John, 1711-1768. (creator)
1777
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