Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782
2. Bancroft Collection

Description

1. 1 map : hand col.; 45 x 50 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 511.
2. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subject

1. North America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
2. Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
3. France -- Colonies -- America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 97-6123

Note

1. Covers the east coast from Labrador to northern Florida, and the interior as far west as the Mississippi Valley.
2. Relief shown pictorially.
3. Prime meridians: Ferro and London.
4. "Published according to Act by Tho[ma]s Jefferys, geographer to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, near Charing Cross."
5. Includes decorative cartouche and texts: French incroachments -- English title to their settlements on the continent.

Indexed in (note)

1. NUC pre-1956
2. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789
3. Phillips. Maps of America

Local note

1. NYPL copy in Map Div. 01-5174: Bancroft Collection.

Author

1. Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.

Title

1. North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville : improved with the back settlements of Virginia and course of Ohio : illustrated with geographical and historical remarks.

Imprint

1. [London] : Thos. Jefferys, May 1755.

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:6,250,000] (W 93⁰--W 53⁰/N 52⁰--N 29⁰)

Indexed in:

1. NUC pre-1956, NJ0073615
2. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1237
3. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 576

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782.
2. Bancroft Collection.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 97-6123 [LHS 511]
2. Map Div. 01-5174