Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766.
2. Bancroft Collection

Description

1. 1 map : hand col.; 47 x 57 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. 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

Call number

1. Map Div. 01-5227

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. "Avec privilege."
3. Appears in some issues of Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy's Atlas universel, 1757 [i.e. 1758?].
4. Differs from other similar map in boundaries of certain territories. This variant has a larger "Virginie" and smaller "Louisiane."
5. Prime meridian: Ferro.
6. Includes decorative cartouche.

Indexed in (note)

1. Variant of LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789
2. Variant of Lowery
3. Phillips

Author

1. Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786.

Title

1. Amérique septentrionale : dressée sur les relations les plus modernes des voyageurs et navigateurs, et divisée suivant les differentes possessions des européens / par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy, fils de Mr. Robert, géographe ordin. du Roy, 1750.

Imprint

1. [Paris : Chez Gilles et Didier Robert de Vaugondy, 1758?]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:17,000,000].

Indexed in:

1. Variant of LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 8
2. Variant of Lowery 399
3. Phillips 619

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766. Atlas universel.
2. Bancroft Collection.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 01-5227 [Filed with North America, 1750]