Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 map; 19 x 24 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Emmet Collection ; 3339.
2. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 608, 610.
3. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Uniform title

1. Gentleman's magazine (London, England)

Subject

1. Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
2. Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 00-498

Note

1. Shows various ship channels from the mouth of Delaware Bay to Philadelphia.
2. From Gentleman's magazine, July 1779.
3. Oriented with north to the right.

Indexed in (note)

1. Jolly, D.C. Maps of America in periodicals before 1800
2. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789

Author

1. Fisher, Joshua, 1707-1783.

Title

1. A chart of Delaware Bay and River / from the original by Mr. Fisher of Philadelphia, 1776.

Imprint

1. [London : s.n., 1779]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:700,000].

Indexed in:

1. Jolly, D.C. Maps of America in periodicals before 1800, 329
2. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1372

Local note

1. Copy in Map Div. 97-6430: hand col.
2. Copy in Map Div. 00-498: Emmet Collection.
3. NYPL copy in Map Div. 02-293: Ford Collection.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added title

1. Gentleman's magazine (London, England)

Research call number

1. Map Div. 00-498 [Filed with Delaware parts]
2. Map Div. 97-6423 [LHS 608]
3. Map Div. 97-6430 [LHS 610]
4. Map Div. 02-293