Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 map : hand col.; 20 x 24 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 513.
2. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Uniform title

1. Gentleman's magazine (London, England)

Alternative title

1. Accurate map of the British Empire in North America as settled by the preliminaries in 1762

Subject

1. Great Britain > Colonies > America > Maps > Early works to 1800
2. North America > Maps > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 97-6125

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. "Longitude west from London" and "Longitude west from Ferro."
3. In upper right margin: Gent. Mag.
4. From: Gentleman's magazine, v. 32, Dec. 1762.
5. Includes note and inset, "A chart of the entrance of the Mississippi."

Indexed in (note)

1. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789

Author

1. Gibson, John.

Title

1. An accurate map of the British Empire in Nth. America as settled by the preliminaries in 1762 / J. Gibson, sculp.

Imprint

1. [London : s.n., 1762]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:15,000,000] (W 93⁰--W 50⁰/N 55⁰--N 28⁰).

Indexed in:

1. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 92

Local note

1. Copy in Map Div. 97-6125: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.
2. Copy in Map Div. 01-5189: Ford Collection.
3. Copy in Map Div. 01-5189 uncolored.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added title

1. Gentleman's magazine (London, England)

Research call number

1. Map Div. 97-6125 [LHS 513]
2. Map Div. 01-5189 [Filed with North America]