Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Burghers, M.
2. University of Oxford

Description

1. 1 map; 36 x 48 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 704.
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. Caribbean Area > Maps > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 01-5345

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. Shows California as an island.
3. "Dedicated to His Highness William Duke of Glocester."
4. Appears in Edward Wells' New sett of maps both of ancient and present geography. London, [1719?], no. 39.

Author

1. Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.

Title

1. A new map of North America shewing its principal divisions, chief cities, townes, rivers, mountains &c. / delin. M. Burg. ; sculpt. Univ. Oxon.

Imprint

1. [London : Printed by T.W. for R. Bonwicke, J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, and T. Ward?, 1719?]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1.:21,500,000] (W 126⁰--W 15⁰/N 70⁰--N 5⁰).

Local note

1. Map Div. 01-5345: Ford Collection.
2. Map Div. 97-6390: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Wells, Edward, 1667-1727. New sett of maps both of ancient and present geography.
2. Burghers, M.
3. University of Oxford.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 01-5345 [Filed with North America, [1710?], as originally cataloged in NYPL Dictionary Catalog of the Map Division]
2. Map Div. 97-6390 [LHS 704]