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A chart of Delaware Bay and River : containing a full and exact description of the shores, creeks, harbours, soundings, shoals, sands, and bearings of the most considerable land marks &c. &c.
- Title
- A chart of Delaware Bay and River : containing a full and exact description of the shores, creeks, harbours, soundings, shoals, sands, and bearings of the most considerable land marks &c. &c. / faithfully coppied [sic] from that published at Philadelphia by Joshua Fisher, together with the tide table from the Capes to Philadelphia, and the set of the tide on the several quarters of the flood and ebb.
- Author
- Fisher, Joshua, 1707-1783.
- Publication
- London : Printed for Robert Sayer, map & sea chartseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, 20th Feby. 1788.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1A to submit a request in person. | Cartographic | Supervised use | Map Div. 97-6369 | Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.
- Description
- 1 map; 47 x 68 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 603.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
- Subjects
- Note
- Depths shown by soundings.
- Shows various ship channels from the mouth of Delaware Bay to Philadelphia, Pa.
- Shows Cape Henlopen as Cape James, to the north of "C. Hinlopen."
- Oriented with north to right.
- Includes tide-table and list of pilots and masters of vessels who have recommended the map.
- Call Number
- Map Div. 97-6369
- OCLC
- 48854282
- Author
- Fisher, Joshua, 1707-1783.
- Title
- A chart of Delaware Bay and River : containing a full and exact description of the shores, creeks, harbours, soundings, shoals, sands, and bearings of the most considerable land marks &c. &c. / faithfully coppied [sic] from that published at Philadelphia by Joshua Fisher, together with the tide table from the Capes to Philadelphia, and the set of the tide on the several quarters of the flood and ebb.
- Imprint
- London : Printed for Robert Sayer, map & sea chartseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, 20th Feby. 1788.
- Cartographic Data
- Scale [ca. 1:250,000].
- Local Note
- NYPL copy has ms. note on verso: 10.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.
- Research Call Number
- Map Div. 97-6369 [LHS 603]