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Additional authors

1. Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)

Description

1. 1 map on 4 sheets : hand col.; 100 x 117 cm., sheets 50 x 59 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subject

1. Canada > Maps > Early works to 1800
2. North America > Maps > Early works to 1800
3. United States > Maps > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 01-5307

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. Prime meridians: Ferro and London.
3. Includes decorative cartouche.
4. Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay -- The passage by land to California.

Indexed in (note)

1. Wheat, C. I. Mapping Transmississippi West

Author

1. Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805.

Title

1. A New map of North America with the West India Islands : divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783, wherein are particularly distinguished the United States, and the several provinces, governments &ca which compose the British Dominions, laid down according to the latest surveys / and corrected from the original materials, of Goverr. Pownall, Membr. of Parliamt, 1783.

Imprint

1. London : Printed for Robt. Sayer and Jno. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, August 15th 1783.

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:5,000,000].

Indexed in:

1. Wheat, C. I. Mapping Transmississippi West, I, no. 196

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)

Research call number

1. Map Div. 01-5307