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Map of Central America : compiled from materials furnished by the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate of the U.S.
Title
Map of Central America : compiled from materials furnished by the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate of the U.S. / executed at the office of the U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Supdt., under special direction of Captain W.R. Palmer, Topl. Engrs. assist. in ch. ad int., March 1856.
Published
[Washington, D.C.] : The Survey, 1856 (New York : Lith. by J. Bien)
Physical Description
1 map : col. ; 106 x 103 cm., folded in cover 23 x 15 cm. Inscription on inside front cover: Philena Fobes.
Cartographic Detail
Scale 1:2,500,000 (W 99⁰20ʹ--W 74⁰40ʹ/N 29⁰20ʹ--N 7⁰40ʹ).
Local Notes
BEIN Covers 89 1856 Copy 1: Mounted on linen.
BEIN Covers 89 1856 Copy 2: Bookplate of New Haven City School District High School Library [with manuscript number 201].
Notes
Relief shown by hachures.
"L.D. Williams, Draughtn. U.S.C.S."
Includes notes, text on treaties and boundaries of Belize and Mosquito Coast, text on boundaries of Costa Rica, and 3 inset maps: Bay of Fonseca -- Port of San Juan de Nicaragua or Grey Town -- Nicaragua from San Juan to Fonseca Bay.
Variant and related titles
Map of Central America, 1856
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Maps.
Also listed under
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations.
United States Washington (D.C.)
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